Africans Aren't Lab Rats In Virus Vaccine Search

So now they want to test for a coronavirus vaccine on Africans.

- Darren Lewis

Despicable, reprehensible but sadly yet another reminder that for some, black lives don’t actually matter as much as they should.

Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at Cochin hospital in Paris has now apologised for his appalling suggestion.

The idea that he’d even believe it enough to proffer it for debate on French TV, however, was far more instructive.

He and Camille Locht, head of research at France’s national health institute, Inserm, appeared in agreement as they spoke about a trial in Europe and Australia.