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Argentina's Presidency Accuses Infectious Disease Specialist of Key Role in Pandemic

Argentina's Presidential Official Response Office accused infectious disease specialist Pedro Cahn of being a 'central figure of the infectadura' and causing 'many victims' during the Covid-19 pandemic, supporting President Javier Milei. This sharp criticism came after the sixth anniversary of the pandemic and the president's comments about journalists.


Argentina's Presidency Accuses Infectious Disease Specialist of Key Role in Pandemic

Buenos Aires, March 22 (NA) -- The Presidential Official Response Office (ORO) today accused infectious disease specialist Pedro Cahn of having been “a central piece of the infectadura” during the Covid-19 pandemic and of having caused “many victims,” in support of President Javier Milei's claims, who described the creator of the Huésped Foundation doctor as “brutal and savage.” ORO made the statement on the occasion of this week marking the sixth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which prompted Milei, upon returning from his trip to Hungary, to sharply question journalists who were photographed wearing t-shirts with Cahn's picture. “Pedro Cahn is not a victim of anything: on the contrary, he left many victims. He was a central piece of the infectadura,” stated a post on social media X by ORO, which also holds “presidential medical advisors Eduardo López and Luis Cámara” responsible for the deaths during the pandemic. According to what the Argentine News Agency (NA) was able to learn, the publication emphasizes that Cahn, López, and Cámara were during the pandemic “under the tutelage of the immoral former Minister of Health Ginés González García, his replacement Carla Vizzotti, the former Buenos Aires Province minister Daniel Gollán, the current one Nicolás Kreplak, and former President Alberto Fernández.” The text states that the Alberto Fernández government “imposed the longest and deadliest quarantine on the planet, blocked early treatments proven in initial phases, and directly contributed to more than 130,000 official deaths while destroying families, businesses, and the future of millions of Argentines.” In this regard, ORO asserted that “the President's words on Twitter,” in which he sharply criticized Cahn, “are not an ‘attack on civilians,’ but an accounting for that crime against humanity that good Argentines paid for with their lives and misery.” “Pedro Cahn's group can continue to deny reality, but the dead and those whose lives were ruined by these outrageous decisions do not forgive,” concludes the ORO message on X. #AgenciaNA

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