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Public Citizen has published a report that outlines how drug giant Pfizer created secret contracts and used its monopoly power to manipulate governments into buying and dispensing its Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines.” As one of the top vaccine producers under “Operation Warp Speed,” Pfizer used its position of power to “silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk, and maximize profits,” according to Public Citizen. “Behind closed doors, Pfizer wields its power to extract a series of concerning concessions from governments,” said report author Zain Rizvi, a law and policy researcher at Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program.
“The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep calling the shots.”
Coronavirus vaccines are supposed to be a global public good, but what happens when a vaccine manufacturer starts bullying? Governments are silenced, supplies are halted, and profits take precedence over saving lives. This is not a hypothetical situation here, this is what Pfizer is doing.
........“These agreements are confidential, but luckily one country did not protect the contract document well enough, so I managed to get a hold of a copy,” he wrote. “As you are about to see, there is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts.”.........
......STAT News also referred to concerns by legal experts, who also suggested Pfizer’s demands were an abuse of power. Mark Eccleston-Turner, a lecturer in global health law at Keele University in England, told STAT:
“[Pfizer] is trying to eke out as much profit and minimize its risk at every juncture with this vaccine development then this vaccine rollout. Now, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So there’s very minimal risk for the manufacturer involved there.”.........
originally posted by: Nyiah
a reply to: Waterglass
You know what, this is not going to be a popular opinion considering some posters backgrounds, but # it.
These companies are all run by, & staffed by, Sackler wannabees. Pfizer & it's well-documented legal loophole abuse is one of the most disgusting of the biggies, you don't make it into pop culture references for that for nothing. And people actually trust these cretins? You sure it's even still human at this rate? Proverbially selling the soul to the devil for money's a pretty nice metaphor for killing your moral & ethical compasses off with currency.
Members of the Sackler family who are at the center of the nation's deadly opioid crisis have won sweeping immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to their privately owned company Purdue Pharma and its OxyContin medication.
Federal Judge Robert Drain approved a bankruptcy settlement on Wednesday that grants the Sacklers "global peace" from any liability for the opioid epidemic.
"This is a bitter result," Drain said. "I believe that at least some of the Sackler parties have liability for those [opioid OxyContin] claims. ... I would have expected a higher settlement."
edit on 16-12-2021 by putnam6 because: (no reason given)
Pfizer only had to meet their terms ($$ kickbacks) for being made the #1 Vaccine in America, over Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.