{"id":1553706,"date":"2022-07-14T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553706"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:19:43","slug":"us-gives-pfizer-3-2-billion-for-ineffective-covid-vax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-gives-pfizer-3-2-billion-for-ineffective-covid-vax\/","title":{"rendered":"US Gives Pfizer $3.2 Billion for Ineffective COVID Vax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-gives-pfizer-3-2-billion-for-ineffective-covid-vax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\" data-swiftype-name=\"postbody\" data-swiftype-type=\"text\">\n<p>In a news release quietly published June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it, in partnership with the Department of Defense, agreed to purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 shot \u2014 for $3.2 billion.<sup><span id=\"edn1\" data-hash=\"#ednref1\">1<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The contract is intended to supply shots for a coming fall injection campaign and includes options to purchase up to 300 million doses. The decision came after a June 28, 2022 meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), which recommended that an Omicron-specific component be included in COVID-19 booster shots in the U.S.<sup><span id=\"edn2\" data-hash=\"#ednref2\">2<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to taking delivery of these new variant-specific vaccines and working with state and local health departments, pharmacies, health care providers, federally qualified health centers, and other partners to make them available in communities around the country this fall,\u201d Dawn O\u2019Connell, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response, said in the news release.<sup><span id=\"edn3\" data-hash=\"#ednref3\">3<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Billions More Dollars Directed Toward Failed Injections<\/h2>\n<p>The shots, which include both adult and pediatric doses, cost more than $30 per dose, on average, which is a more than 50% increase from the $19.50 per dose rate in the U.S. government\u2019s initial contract with Pfizer.<sup><span id=\"edn4\" data-hash=\"#ednref4\">4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Some of the adult doses are now in single-dose vials, which cost more to produce but are intended to reduce waste that often occurs from open multi-dose vials.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer stands to profit significantly from the contract and has forecast that its COVID-19 shot sales will reach $32 billion in 2022.<sup><span id=\"edn5\" data-hash=\"#ednref5\">5<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0It\u2019s the U.S. public that stands to lose in this deal, as they\u2019re inundated with a new push to get injected with yet another COVID-19 shot, despite their continued failures.<\/p>\n<p>Current COVID-19 booster shots lose effectiveness rapidly, with protection plummeting by the fourth month post-shot.<sup><span id=\"edn6\" data-hash=\"#ednref6\">6<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The eye-raising data, presented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, follows the same dismal pattern of effectiveness displayed by the primary mRNA COVID-19 shot series, whose effectiveness also wanes in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, research conducted by the New York State Department of Health<sup><span id=\"edn7\" data-hash=\"#ednref7\">7<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0analyzed outcomes among 852,384 children aged 12 to 17 years, and 365,502 children aged 5 to 11 years, who had received two doses of the shots, from December 13, 2021 to January 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Effectiveness again declined rapidly among 5- to 11-year-olds, falling from 68% to just 12%. Protection against hospitalization also dropped, from 100% to 48%. Among 11-year-olds alone, vaccine effectiveness plunged to 11%.<sup><span id=\"edn8\" data-hash=\"#ednref8\">8<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The lackluster response was blamed on the dosage discrepancies among the age groups, as 5- to 11-year-olds receive two 10-microgram Pfizer shots, while 12- to 17-year-olds receive 30-microgram shots.<sup><span id=\"edn9\" data-hash=\"#ednref9\">9<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Panel Acts as \u2018Crystal Ball\u2019 in Guessing Which Booster to Use<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s well known that spike protein mutates rapidly, which essentially destroys virtually any protection that COVID-19 shots provide shortly after they\u2019re given. The end result is a seemingly never-ending series of annual shots and boosters.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer claimed that its new booster candidates would work better than their past versions. One option being considered targets only the Omicron variant, while the other option targets the strain in the original shot along with the Omicron variant.<sup><span id=\"edn10\" data-hash=\"#ednref10\">10<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Two doses \u2014 one including 30 mcg of mRNA and one including 60 mcg \u2014 were also tested, despite earlier safety concerns with a higher-dose shot.<sup><span id=\"edn11\" data-hash=\"#ednref11\">11<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>While Pfizer cited strong antibody responses from the retooled boosters, the booster shot studies do not reveal whether the shots prevent COVID-19 cases or how long they are effective.<sup><span id=\"edn12\" data-hash=\"#ednref12\">12<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0VRBPAC voted 19-2 in favor of recommending booster shots that are Omicron-specific, but the FDA will ultimately decide what formulation will be in the \u201cwinning\u201d shot.<\/p>\n<p>Under discussion was whether the shots should target the original Omicron strain BA.1 or the subvariants that have emerged \u2014 known as BA.4 and BA.5, which appear to be spreading in the U.S.<sup><span id=\"edn13\" data-hash=\"#ednref13\">13<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul Offit, who is notoriously pro-vaccine, was one of the two people who voted against the booster recommendation, because he didn\u2019t agree with the variant being included and believed there was a \u201cdearth of data\u201d regarding the level at which the body\u2019s immune response to antibodies corresponds to sound protection.<sup><span id=\"edn14\" data-hash=\"#ednref14\">14<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still not comfortable enough that we have the information we need to essentially support this new product,\u201d Offit said.<sup><span id=\"edn15\" data-hash=\"#ednref15\">15<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The move highlights the uncertainty and guesswork surrounding the booster rollout. Committee member Adam Berger, with the U.S. National Institutes of Health, also stated, \u201cI\u2019m not sure we have enough evidence to support a change today,\u201d but he voted in favor of the recommendation anyway.<sup><span id=\"edn16\" data-hash=\"#ednref16\">16<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0NBC News also reported:<sup><span id=\"edn17\" data-hash=\"#ednref17\">17<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cDr. Peter Marks, the FDA\u2019s top vaccine regulator, acknowledged that the question before the committee was challenging and would require guesswork, saying that the federal agency was essentially asking the panel to act as a sort of \u2018crystal ball.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u2026 Committee member Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician at Tufts University School of Medicine, suggested that the bivalent vaccine only be made available to adults at first, noting that scientists don\u2019t know what the potential side effects are, if any, from multiple doses of the Covid vaccines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>FDA\u2019s \u2018Future Framework\u2019 Does Away With COVID Shot Trials<\/h2>\n<p>The FDA supplied the agenda for the VRBPAC committee meeting,<sup><span id=\"edn18\" data-hash=\"#ednref18\">18<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0along with an 18-page briefing document that included just 19 references, none of which was peer-reviewed.<sup><span id=\"edn19\" data-hash=\"#ednref19\">19<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cTo base the entire future of COVID-19 shots on this glorified undergrad term paper is madness,\u201d wrote political economist Toby Rogers, who explains that a \u201cFuture Framework\u201d is being presented that exempts future COVID-19 shots from clinical trials:<sup><span id=\"edn20\" data-hash=\"#ednref20\">20<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe briefing document literally states: \u201cThe evaluation of modified vaccines for the purpose of vaccine strain composition decisions will need to rely mainly on comparative immunogenicity data due to the time constraints involved in vaccine manufacturing and clinical efficacy evaluation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Did you catch that? The evaluation \u201cwill need to rely on\u201d (no decision to be made here) measures other than actual health outcomes because of \u201ctime constraints.\u201d Ah, $cience! Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax are all developing reformulated COVID-19 shots. But they know that the FDA is not going to look at health outcomes so they are going to great lengths to jack up the antibody response.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u2026 But the VRBPAC admitted on April 6 that there are no known correlates of protection (meaning: antibody levels do not tell you who will be immune) so these antibody measures are medically meaningless.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Sane people realize that if you turbo charge the immune response, you may also turbo charge adverse events. But the \u201cFuture Framework\u201d allows pharmaceutical companies to skip clinical trials altogether.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Rogers revealed that it\u2019s actually the World Health Organization and Bill Gates who are behind this push to roll out new formulations of COVID-19 shots without adequate clinical trials. \u201cThis entire \u2018Future Framework\u2019 is actually coming from the WHO. The Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest voluntary contributor to the WHO.<\/p>\n<p>So Gates is likely directing the play,\u201d he explained, noting that WHO\u2019s Kanta Subbarao \u2014 who formerly worked at Fauci\u2019s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 14 years \u2014 presented at the VRBPAC meeting on the topic of \u201cConsiderations for Vaccine Strain Composition from the WHO TAG CO-VAC [Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition].\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>VRBPAC Shot Approval Will \u2018Increase Harm to the US Public\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The gist of her presentation was that strain selection for COVID-19 shots must be coordinated globally similar to what occurs for influenza. Sounding an alarm over the VRBPAC\u2019s essential approval of the future framework with their move to recommend new COVID-19 booster shots for the fall, Brian Hooker, Ph.D., Children\u2019s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University, told The Defender:<sup><span id=\"edn21\" data-hash=\"#ednref21\">21<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe proposed move by VRBPAC will increase the harm to the U.S. public to unprecedented levels, as this action will further circumvent necessary clinical trials even beyond the slapdash testing of COVID-19 vaccines under Emergency Use Authorization. This adds to a foundation of lies used to authorize the original COVID-19 vaccines without anywhere near proper testing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VRBPAC also has a history of allowing members with conflicts of interest to vote. When VRBPAC voted on allowing COVID-19 shots for children as young as 6 months, Dr. James Hildreth, who had received a waiver allowing participation in the meeting, declared a number of financial interests related to clinical trials for the pediatric COVID-19 shots being voted on, both personally and related to his employer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the conflicts, he was allowed to vote at the session, voting favorably for all three pediatric COVID-19 shots.<sup><span id=\"edn22\" data-hash=\"#ednref22\">22<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Millions of COVID-19 Doses Wasted in the US<\/h2>\n<p>The U.S. continues to stockpile COVID-19 shots, wasting billions of dollars on the shots even as demand fizzles. An ABC News investigation found that millions of shots have gone unused as the demand for the injections plummeted. In speaking with health department officials in all 50 states, they found millions of instances of COVID-19 shots going to waste, sitting unused or set to expire in coming weeks. This includes:<sup><span id=\"edn23\" data-hash=\"#ednref23\">23<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.7 million doses wasted in Michigan since December 2020<\/li>\n<li>619,000 doses unused in Colorado<\/li>\n<li>3.6 million shots sitting in a stockpile in California<\/li>\n<li>Close to 760,000 doses deemed nonviable, spoiled or expired in Oregon<\/li>\n<li>More than 850,000 doses wasted in Wisconsin<sup><span id=\"edn24\" data-hash=\"#ednref24\">24<\/span><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As word continues to get out that COVID-19 shots are failing, and adverse effects can be severe \u2014 even deadly<sup><span id=\"edn25\" data-hash=\"#ednref25\">25<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u2014 reluctance to get the shots is growing. In May 2022, only 18% of parents said they were willing to get their under-5-year-old child a COVID-19 shot, while 27% said they \u201cdefinitely would not\u201d get them the shot.<sup><span id=\"edn26\" data-hash=\"#ednref26\">26<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Such caution is wise, as artificially inflated antibodies caused by repeated booster shots signal to your body that you\u2019re always infected, and the resulting immune response comes at a cost and could prove to be detrimental to your health, potentially accelerating the development of autoimmune conditions such as Parkinson\u2019s, Kawasaki disease and multiple sclerosis.<sup><span id=\"edn27\" data-hash=\"#ednref27\">27<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Further, training your body to produce singular antibodies for one spike protein cannot compare to the protection provided by natural immunity, which occurs after recovery from an illness. According to Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser for Pfizer, the human body mounts its best immune responses after natural COVID-19 infection, not exposure to the spike protein in the shots.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that 90% of the immune response mounted after natural COVID-19 exposure is not to the spike protein at all,<sup><span id=\"edn28\" data-hash=\"#ednref28\">28<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0raising more concerns about COVID-19 shots\u2019 validity. The U.S. government is forging ahead with more shots nonetheless. You can expect a renewed push for boosters to hit the airwaves soon, as HHS expects its first deliveries of the latest COVID-19 shots to arrive in early fall.<sup><span id=\"edn29\" data-hash=\"#ednref29\">29<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published\u00a0July 12, 2022 on Mercola.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 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