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October 13, 2022: PFIZER'S LIES
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Covid: **Pfizer admits it put its vaccine on the market without data on virus transmission **
October 12, 2022, 20:16
Ted S. Warren Source: AP _
Statements by Pfizer representatives regarding the tests of the Covid-19 vaccines have sparked controversy (illustration). Follow RT France on Telegram logoTelegram The laboratory is once again in controversy for having indicated that its vaccine had not been tested for its ability to prevent the spread of the disease before being put on the market, and for its lack of transparency regarding the contracts.
Controversies around the pharmaceutical company Pfizer are resurfacing after hearings conducted by the European Parliament's special commission on Covid-19, also known as the Covi commission, which interviewed on October 10 representatives of several laboratories on their role in managing the pandemic. Also read The CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, on November 19, 2021, in Greece (illustration image). The CEO of Pfizer announces that he contracted Covid-19 despite "four doses" of his vaccine. One of the statements by Janine Small, president of international markets at Pfizer, who represented the company in the absence - criticized by several elected officials, according to the excerpt published by the European Parliament - of its CEO Albert Bourla, particularly attracted attention. "Has the Pfizer vaccine against Covid been tested for its ability to prevent the transmission of the virus before being released on the market?" asked the Dutch conservative eurodeputy Rob Roos. "No," answered Janine Small, explaining that Pfizer's teams had to "move at the speed of science to understand what was happening on the market" and that the urgency of the situation required "taking risks."
"Vaccinate for others" has always been a lie According to Rob Roos, this statement invalidates the previous statements made by the company: its CEO Albert Bourla had indeed repeatedly stated that vaccination was necessary not only to protect oneself, but also to "protect others," especially the elderly and vulnerable. This assumption guided vaccination policies in Europe, and justified the introduction of the health pass, adopted by the Netherlands as well as by France. "‘Vaccinate for others’ has always been a lie," said the Dutch politician commenting on this video excerpt, recalling the speeches of his country's Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who stated that refusing to get vaccinated was "antisocial."
Several French political figures opposed to the health and vaccination passes have strongly reacted to the Pfizer representative's statement. In a video posted on Twitter from the benches of the National Assembly, Essonne deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan called it a real "thunderclap," demonstrating that the government slogan "all vaccinated, all protected" was a "lie," relayed by French President Emmanuel Macron himself. "Giant lie" "More than a year later, we realize that what I said [...] was true, that we were lied to, that a huge lie [...] organized by the states and the pharmaceutical industries has been set up to make you feel guilty for not getting vaccinated," he denounced, before demanding the reinstatement and compensation of unvaccinated healthcare workers, who were prohibited from practicing their profession due to their refusal to receive an injection. Similarly, the leader of the Patriotes, Florian Philippot, called the statements of Pfizer representatives an "enormous revelation" justifying "the immediate reinstatement of all suspended staff." "The scandal has gone on long enough!" he added.
Lawyer Fabrice Di Vizio, who represents a series of suspended healthcare workers, has expressed his intention to "bring the case before the judge again" to demand their reinstatement, although he considers these statements "nothing new." Rather pessimistic about the chances of success of such lawsuits "because everything is political," he was, however, pleased with the "credit" given by Janine Small to his statements according to which "the issue was not the vaccine but the pass and social control." The ability of vaccines developed by Pfizer and other laboratories to reduce the transmission of the virus has been the subject of many discussions since the start of vaccination campaigns and the implementation of measures such as the health pass and vaccination pass. In November 2021, the World Health Organization stated that "vaccines save lives, but they do not completely prevent the transmission of Covid-19," estimating at the time that the arrival of the Delta variant had reduced the effectiveness of vaccines against transmission to a threshold of 40%, compared to 60% previously. The Pasteur Institute, for its part, estimated in the fall of 2021 that vaccinated people infected had 50% less risk of transmitting the virus than unvaccinated people. Very effective against severe forms of the disease according to a series of studies, the Covid vaccines are, however, less effective at preventing the spread of the virus, particularly since the arrival of a series of variants, including Omicron, which is even more contagious than its predecessor Delta.
Text message exchanges between Ursula von der Leyen and the head of Pfizer: the power struggle continues The other part of the exchanges with the Pfizer representative concerned the transparency of the contracts with the European Union. As the media Euractiv points out, "all political groups in the European Parliament demand that the contracts be known to all," several questions having been raised about the content of the SMS exchanges between Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. Also read The Pfizer Covid vaccine (illustration image). Pfizer wants to sell 5.4 billion dollars worth of vaccines and anti-Covid pills in 2022 "We welcome the scientific achievement [...] of the company Pfizer in the race against Covid-19, but this achievement cannot justify the lack of transparency in the negotiation of contracts," said the Renew Europe eurodeputy Véronique Trillet-Lenoir. If Janine Small maintained that Pfizer had shown "great transparency" and that all contracts were "available to the eurodeputies," several elected officials pointed out that some parts were illegible.
Véronique Trillet-Lenoir thus expressed her regret to Euractiv that the elected officials had "never managed to know the production sites, never managed to get delivery schedules," to which Janine Small replied that the information in question was "confidential" for "competition" reasons. The contract followed the usual procedure Several eurodeputies returned to the issue of SMS exchanges between the President of the Commission and the CEO of Pfizer, including elements on the transmission of the virus that have never been made public despite repeated requests, including from the Ombudsman of the Union ...