ZWELI MKHIZE
In the past week, my office has been inundated with media requests for comments regarding Prof Glenda Gray’s public utterances on government’s decision relating to the lockdown.
The article referred to has some of the utterances that have been directly attributed to Prof Gray, as follows:
- “We are seeing children with malnutrition for the first time (at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital). We have not seen malnutrition for decades and so we are seeing it for the first time in the hospital”
- “…but the de-escalation, month on month, to various levels is nonsensical and unscientific.
- “We believe, as scientists, that we give and are giving the government good advice and why they decided not to take the advice or engage readily with the scientists is unknown. Why have experts if you don’t care what they think?”
- “This strategy is not based on science and is completely unmeasured. It’s
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