Health workers personal protective equipment (PPE) record the details of residents, as they stand at social distance to each other, during a Covid-19 testing drive at Olympic Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Halfway through Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyattas second term his pledge of transforming the economy through manufacturing, farming, health care and low-cost housing have been slow to show results, and the coronavirus pandemic could now reduce that to little more than an election promise. Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg

PANDA experts: Why every SA should care about dodgy Covid-19 data. MUST LISTEN!

PANDA explains why it is like a dog with lockjaw on Covid-19 data; UCT scientists want PANDA actuaries, economists, lawyers banned from sharing their views.

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22 Jul 2020, 6:39 am

PANDA is a group of actuaries, lawyers, economists and other professionals pushing for accountability from scientists who are behind the Covid-19 models used by the government as the rationale for depriving South Africans of their rights. As Shayne Krige, a lawyer, tells BizNews founder Alec Hogg: the strict lockdown has wiped out freedoms in addition to throttling the economy. PANDA has criticised modellers from the University of Cape Town and elsewhere for forecasting overly pessimistic death rates. This approach worked well in getting the state to provide for HIV-Aids, but it has backfired with the need to curb a highly contagious, fast-acting virus-like Covid-19. Modellers, including Professor Boulle of UCT, have attempted to shut down debate on the numbers. They have complained to the Press Council of SA about PANDA articles and tried to impose a BizNews ban on publishing the views of PANDA. In these two interviews, PANDA picks up on questions about Covid-19 and what they are trying to achieve with their hard-hitting, sometimes controversial, messages. – Editor

PANDA lawyer Shayne Krige answers questions for BizNews community members:

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