{"id":1690531,"date":"2022-10-15T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1690531"},"modified":"2022-10-15T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T15:21:31","slug":"it-was-the-mandates-not-the-fine-print-fact-checkers-miss-point-in-rush-to-defend-pfizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-the-mandates-not-the-fine-print-fact-checkers-miss-point-in-rush-to-defend-pfizer\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was The Mandates, Not The Fine Print: Fact Checkers Miss Point In Rush To Defend Pfizer"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fit-was-the-mandates-not-the-fine-print-fact-checkers-miss-point-in-rush-to-defend-pfizer%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=1690531&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--><p>Fact checkers swung into action after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-fing-evidence-russell-brand-blasts-biden-pfizer-after-exec-admits-covid-vaccine-was-never-tested-to-stop-transmission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pfizer executive<\/a> acknowledged this week that the company never tested its COVID vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/scandalous-pfizer-exec-tells-eu-lawmaker-covid-jab-was-never-tested-to-show-it-blocked-transmission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against transmission<\/a>, but they seem to have missed the critics\u2019 point in their rush to defend the pharmaceutical giant.<\/p>\n<p>Janine Small, Pfizer\u2019s president of international developed markets, answered no Monday when asked by European Union Member of Parliament Rob Roos if the company tested its mRNA vaccine on stopping transmission before rolling it out. The Dutch lawmaker later called it \u201cscandalous\u201d given that vaccine passports and mandates were pushed globally on the implication that they would stop transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cscandalous\u201d parties Roos referred to were global governments, not Pfizer.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no evidence Pfizer ever claimed its vaccine was tested for transmission, the notion that the vaccines offered such protection against the spread of COVID was seized upon by governments to compel people to get vaccinated. The distinction between individuals contracting and transmitting COVID was lost as governments sought to stop the virus from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,\u201d President Joe Biden said in July 2021. Two months earlier, White House Chief Medical Adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/553773-fauci-vaccinated-people-become-dead-ends-for-the-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> said\u00a0that vaccinated people become \u201cdead ends\u201d for the virus, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in March 2021 that data from the CDC suggested that \u201cvaccinated people do not carry the virus, don\u2019t get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>In COVID hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pfizer?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pfizer<\/a> director admits: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vaccine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#vaccine<\/a> was never tested on preventing transmission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get vaccinated for others&#8221; was always a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The only purpose of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID<\/a> passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The world needs to know. Share this video! \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/su1WqgB4dO\">pic.twitter.com\/su1WqgB4dO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Roos MEP \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 (@Rob_Roos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rob_Roos\/status\/1579759795225198593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roos said his point after Monday\u2019s testimony was that compelling young, healthy people who were not afraid of contracting the virus themselves to nonetheless get the jab in order to ensure they did not spread it was built on a myth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of people worldwide felt forced to get vaccinated because of the myth that \u2018you do it for others,\u2019\u201d he said in the video, which has been viewed more than 10 million times. \u201cNow this turned out to be a cheap lie. This should be exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roos later told The Associated Press he was not claiming Pfizer lied, but that the foundation governments used to press for mandates was bogus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take fundamental rights seriously,\u201d Roos said. \u201cFor governments to infringe on them, they need a massive amount of evidence to prove the necessity. In this case, it was not even a part of the Pfizer trials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fact checkers from The Associated Press, Politifact and other groups that have faithfully toed the government line throughout the pandemic were quick to claim that since Pfizer never said it tested its vaccine against transmission \u2014 Small\u2019s remark was neither an \u201cadmission\u201d nor news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPfizer never claimed to have tested the impact of its COVID-19 vaccine on transmission ahead of its 2020 release, despite misleading claims suggesting the company lied about this issue,\u201d wrote The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPosts online are saying Pfizer \u2018admitted\u2019 that the company did not test whether their COVID-19 vaccine reduced transmission prior to rolling it out \u2013 something they were not required to do, nor claimed to have done,\u201d wrote Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>But even if Pfizer never made the claim, fact checkers strong suggested it. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2021\/11\/17\/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-protect-against-infection-transmission\/6403678001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-check by USA Today<\/a> in November 2021, titled \u201cFact check: Vaccines protect against contracting, spreading COVID-19,\u201d quoted Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of\u00a0immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University, saying the vaccine did guard against transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines provide significant protection from \u2018getting it\u2019\u00a0\u2013 infection\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and \u2018spreading it\u2019\u00a0\u2013 transmission\u00a0\u2013\u00a0even against the delta variant,\u201d Iwasaki said.<\/p>\n<p>The protection that the COVID vaccines provide to contracting the virus has also been called into question. When the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna were first rolled out, pharmaceutical companies, government health officials and political leaders hailed them as powerful and effective. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in April 2021 that early testing showed its vaccine was \u201c100 per cent effective against severe COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When vaccinated people began getting COVID anyway, their cases were initially deemed \u201cbreakthrough\u201d cases.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/quadruple-vaccinated-pfizer-ceo-tests-positive-for-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bourla, who got COVID in August<\/a>, admitted in January his company\u2019s vaccine provides \u201cvery limited protection, if any\u201d against contracting the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, many experts have acknowledged that the vaccines may not stop transmission or contraction of the virus, but may lessen the symptoms and prevent deaths. Even if true, say some experts, that is scant justification for vaccine mandates and passports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target,\u201d Nobel Prize-winning virologist Luc Montagnier and constitutional scholar Jed Rubenfeld\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/omicron-makes-bidens-vaccine-mandates-obsolete-covid-healthcare-osha-evidence-supreme-court-11641760009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cMandating a vaccine to stop the spread of a disease requires evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact checkers swung into action after a Pfizer executive acknowledged this week that the company never tested its COVID vaccine against transmission, but they seem to have missed the critics\u2019 point in their rush to defend the pharmaceutical giant. Janine Small, Pfizer\u2019s president of international developed markets, answered no Monday when asked by European Union &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-was-the-mandates-not-the-fine-print-fact-checkers-miss-point-in-rush-to-defend-pfizer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}