This is discrimination

Replica to the publication of Yulia Latynina "Omicron": we are on the verge of disaster ... "

Dear employees of "New",

My name is Denis Godlevsky, I am the head of the Coalition for Readiness for Treatment-an organization that deals with HIV issues. (...)

My request is related to (...) discriminatory and erroneous statements that are published in the article in the Novaya Gazeta (which I respect and love, and therefore I ask you to correct errors).

We are talking about the publication (...) behind the authorship of Yu. Latinina, about Omicron .

1. At the very beginning of the article, the word "immuno -commed" is used. There is no such turn as the "Immuno -repaired patient." The patient is "immunocompromised", without the letter C.

2. Quote: “The virus did not have such opportunities for evolution before: people with immune deficiency simply died quickly, and the virus did not evolve. By saving life to such people, we organize a revolution on steroids. ”

Colleagues! You can save people with HIV in one way. Give them ARV therapy. These are tablets that you need to drink every day. Then the level of the virus in their body falls to zero, immunity can perform its functions, and they will not differ almost from the point of view of their body reaction from employees and editors, and they will not differ from all people without HIV. The employees of your publication have repeatedly took comments on the topic of HIV. And then such a discriminatory publication comes out.

People living with HIV, who take ARV therapy, cannot give rise to a virus with 30 mutations in S-Bely. The logic here is the opposite.

The hypothesis (and, by the way, I have not yet seen its evidence in the scientific literature, this is assumption) that you write about, is that the mutation occurred in a patient who did not accept the arv and, perhaps, was at the AIDS stage, so its immune system did not react.

Therefore, if for 40 years the HIV epidemics of the corporation and the government of all people with HIV provided tablets, such a mutation would be in principle impossible. The problem is that not all people with HIV “We save life” in your terminology.

The problem is that this person was not on therapy, if at all such a mutation occurred in it. In this regard, I have a huge request to the editors to cut or edit a very catchy, but fundamentally incorrect turnover about the "revolution on steroids." It is discriminatory.

Such passages in people who are not related to the problem cause rejection in relation to people with HIV. (...)

Denis Godlevsky