Politicized Medicine
The Army and the intelligence agency must not involve themselves in research to find a treatment for Covid-19. Soldiers and spies cannot produce a miracle cure.
Tempo
August 24, 2020
THE handling of the Covid-19 pandemic should be kept far away from political motives. The desire for the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) and the Indonesian Army to participate in the endeavor against the pandemic should be limited to letting the epidemiologists and health care experts do their jobs. Sponsoring a campus research institute to look for a treatment is outside the responsibility of the two institutions. And neither was it appropr
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