London (PTI): British Indian cardiologist Aseem Malhotra, a vocal campaigner for a more evidence-based approach to all COVID vaccines, and a fellow medic on Friday called for medical bodies to publicly apologise for the implementation of COVID vaccine mandates they claim have fuelled distrust and conspiracy theories.

Writing in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Science, Public Health Policy and the Law’, Malhotra and research psychologist Dr Andrea Lamont Nazarenko call upon the public health establishment to address the shortcomings of COVID-era public policy and acknowledge wrongdoings.

Both authors acknowledge the need for decisions guided by the best evidence available in the early days of the pandemic but insist that such justification cannot extend indefinitely.

“Until the most urgent qu

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