Texas AG Paxton sues Pfizer for allegedly misrepresenting COVID vaccine efficacy
OAN’s Daniel Baldwin
12:18 PM – Thursday, November 30, 2023
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, accusing the pharmaceutical company of misleading the public about the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to suppress discussions about it.
“By the end of 2021, official government reports showed that in at least some places a greater percentage of the vaccinated were dying from COVID-19 than the unvaccinated,” the petition read. “Pfizer’s vaccine plainly was not ‘95% effective.’”
According to Paxton, Pfizer violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by engaging in false and misleading acts.
“In a nutshell, Pfizer deceived the public,” the lawsuit stated.
“We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies,” Paxton said in a press release. “The facts are clear. Pfizer did not tell the truth about their COVID-19 vaccines. Whereas the Biden Administration weaponized the pandemic to force illegal public health decrees on the public and enrich pharmaceutical companies, I will use every tool I have to protect our citizens who were misled and harmed by Pfizer’s actions.”
The lawsuit centers around allegations that Pfizer provided false information about the vaccine’s 95% effectiveness.
“When it began making those claims, Pfizer possessed on average only two months of clinical trial data from which to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated persons,” the lawsuit read. “Of 17,000 placebo recipients, only 162 acquired COVID-19 during this two-month period. Based on those numbers, vaccination status had a negligible impact on whether a trial participant contracted COVID-19.”
“The risk of acquiring COVID-19 was so small in the first instance during this short window that Pfizer’s vaccine only fractionally improved a person’s risk of infection,” the petition continued. “And a vaccine recipient’s absolute risk reduction—the federal Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) preferred efficacy metric—showed that the vaccine was merely 0.85% effective. Moreover, according to Pfizer’s own data, preventing one COVID-19 case required vaccinating 119. That was the simple truth. But Pfizer’s fusillade of public representations bore no resemblance to reality.”
Paxton also alleges that COVID cases increased as Pfizer distributed millions of its shots, with some areas reporting more deaths among the vaccinated population than the unvaccinated.
Paxton further claims that Pfizer colluded with the Biden Administration to request censorship of COVID-related misinformation from Big Tech companies.
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What implications does this lawsuit have for public trust in vaccines and the accountability of pharmaceutical companies?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Pfizer, accusing them of misleading the public about the effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine and attempting to suppress discussions about it. The lawsuit alleges that Pfizer violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by engaging in false and misleading acts.
According to the lawsuit, Pfizer provided false information about the vaccine’s effectiveness, specifically claiming it was 95% effective. However, the lawsuit argues that at the time of making these claims, Pfizer only had two months of clinical trial data to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated persons. The number of COVID-19 cases among placebo recipients during this period was minimal, indicating that vaccination status had little impact on whether a trial participant contracted the virus. The lawsuit further claims that Pfizer’s own data showed that preventing one COVID-19 case required vaccinating 119 individuals, making the vaccine far less effective than claimed.
Paxton also alleges that as Pfizer distributed millions of vaccine doses, COVID-19 cases increased in some areas, with a higher number of deaths occurring among the vaccinated population compared to the unvaccinated. The lawsuit asserts that Pfizer colluded with the Biden Administration to request the censorship of COVID-related misinformation from Big Tech companies.
In a press release, Attorney General Paxton emphasized his commitment to pursuing justice for the people of Texas who were misled and harmed by Pfizer’s actions. He criticized the Biden Administration for leveraging the pandemic to enforce illegal public health decrees and enrich pharmaceutical companies, and he pledged to use every available tool to protect the citizens of Texas.
This lawsuit against Pfizer raises important questions about the transparency and accuracy of information surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. It highlights the need for pharmaceutical companies to provide accurate data and for regulators to thoroughly review and evaluate the efficacy and safety of vaccines. The outcome of this lawsuit will have significant implications for public trust in vaccines and the accountability of pharmaceutical companies.
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