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Alastair McAlpine

He was a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at British Columbia Children's Hospital.[1]

History

McAlpine was a signatory to the John Snow Memorandum calling for sustained public health restrictions,[2] originally published in The Lancet in October 2020.[3]

In December 2021, McAlpine co-authored an article in Canada's National Observer arguing for the closure of industrial mink farms due to the alleged risk of emerging SARS-COV-2 variants. He alludes to veterinary COVID-19 vaccines.[4]

Newsweek cited a February 1, 2022 tweet by McAlpine in which he asserted that in-vitro data for the benefit of ivermectin had not meaningfully translated into humans.[5]

In April 2022, he described Dr. Robert Malone's work on mRNA vaccines as “important” but explained that others contributed to the platform over a number of years.[6] MedPage Today repeated the quotation three days later.[7]

  1. A long way from home. (2018, October 9). CMAJ Blogs. https://web.archive.org/web/20220127225549/http://cmajblogs.com/a-long-way-from-home/ ↩︎

  2. Signatories of The John Snow Memo. John Snow Memorandum. Retrieved April 1, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220401051743/https://www.johnsnowmemo.com/1200.html ↩︎

  3. Alwan, N. A., Burgess, R. A., Ashworth, S., Beale, R., Bhadelia, N., Bogaert, D., Dowd, J., Eckerle, I., Goldman, L. R., Greenhalgh, T., Gurdasani, D., Hamdy, A., Hanage, W. P., Hodcroft, E. B., Hyde, Z., Kellam, P., Kelly-Irving, M., Krammer, F., Lipsitch, M., & McNally, A. (2020). Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X ↩︎

  4. Hajek, J., McAlpine, A., & Leung, V. (2021, December 16). Large mink fur farms threaten our COVID-19 health efforts. Canada’s National Observer. https://web.archive.org/web/20221115045342/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/12/16/opinion/mink-fur-farms-threaten-covid-19-health-efforts ↩︎

  5. Browne, E. (2022, February 1). News Story on Ivermectin Having Anti-Viral Effect Against Omicron Corrected. Newsweek. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201113531/https://www.newsweek.com/reuters-corrects-ivermectin-anti-viral-effect-omicron-covid-coronavirus-1674854 ↩︎

  6. Alba, D. (2022, April 3). The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines. The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20220406143117/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/technology/robert-malone-covid.html ↩︎

  7. Fiore, K. (2022, April 6). COVID Origins and EcoHealth Alliance; Malone Didn’t Invent mRNA Vaccines. MedPage Today. https://web.archive.org/web/20220406164838/https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/98075 ↩︎