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(Peru) Scandal over COVID vaccine trial at Peruvian universities prompts outrage – Nature (Luke Taylor | March 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics on April 9, 2021
Keywords: Clinical trial, Institutional responsibilities, International, Medical research, Research Misconduct, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On April 26, 2021

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Researchers gave shots to politicians and family members, violating trial regulations — and damaging public trust.

A clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccines in Peru has sparked outrage and triggered a series of high-profile resignations at universities and in government. Politicians, researchers and some of their family members who were not enrolled as trial participants nevertheless received vaccines — breaching standard protocols. Investigations are ongoing as the country struggles to inoculate its general population with limited doses.

Perhaps in a different time and context, this story may have struggled for attention beyond the clinical and academic press. But we’re in a time when the majority of people are being asked to wait patiently for their turn to receive a vaccine dose, the outrage when trial protocols are broken and doses are given to the powerful (and their families) is no surprise.

The scandal emerged on 10 February, when local media revealed that in October 2020, then-president Martín Vizcarra had received two doses of a vaccine developed by the Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical group Sinopharm. At the time, a phase III clinical trial was under way to testthe vaccine at two universities in Peru; Vizcarra was not part of the trial.

Days later, it emerged that a group of around 470 other people — including 100 high-profile individuals such as Peru’s minister of health and Vizcarra’s wife and brother — also got a jab while the trial was in progress. The shots came from a batch of about 2,000 doses that Peruvian officials reportedly negotiated with Sinopharm to protect the medical staff running the trial.

Scandal over COVID vaccine trial at Peruvian universities spurs outrage
Researchers gave shots to politicians and family members, violating trial regulations — and damaging public trust.

 

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