The study found that coconut oil did not offer the same benefits and instead increased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the kind associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
Russian State Employees Describe Pressure to Join Vaccine Trials | World News
By Polina Ivanova, Rinat Sagdiev, Gleb Stolyarov and Kate Kelland
MOSCOW (Reuters) – In late September, Moscow municipal official Sergei Martyanov sent a series of text messages to his subordinates: “Colleagues!!!… What is this sabotage???”
Martyanov was expressing dismay at his staff’s apparent reluctance to volunteer for the human trials of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, named after the Soviet-era satellite that triggered the space race. The official in the Moscow department of city property said many quota spots for his staff to join the trial remained unfilled.
He said he had heard some workers were signing up to receive flu vaccines, making them ineligible for the coronavirus trial.
“Who are you trying to trick???” Martyanov said in the texts. “The coronavirus vaccine is the absolute priority!!!”
Anyone who had received the flu jab, he said, must still sign up for the COVID trial, allowing a month’s delay. He urged