Understanding the 500 Percent Price Increase of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
During a 2021 earnings call with stockholders, Pfizer Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio discussed how the company was using “pandemic pricing” to charge $19.50 per COVID-19 vaccine dose, a product it expected to make $15 billion on in 2021. “[There’s] significant opportunity for those margins to improve once we get beyond the pandemic environment that […]
Texas House Passes Bill Banning COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates by Employers
Texas is one step closer to banning private employers from adopting or enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The CDC says COVID-19 vaccines work well to prevent severe illness, but the vaccines do not stop the spread of the virus as medical experts initially hoped. … The bill reads, ‘An employer may not adopt or enforce a […]
How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?
International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private partnership’ agenda, the foundations of the rich determine global priorities, and a propagandized public are […]
Study Finds Increased Risk of Stroke in Elderly After COVID and High Dose/Adjuvanted Influenza Shots
On Jan. 13 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for U.S. Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) issued a public statement regarding the identification of a preliminary safety signal for ischemic stroke among adults over the age of 65 that occurs between one to 21 days after receiving Pfizer/BioNTech’s monovalent […]
Pfizer Will Charge Patients $1,390 for COVID Anti-Viral Paxlovid
Pfizer, Inc. plans to charge consumers more than double the price charged to the U.S. government for its COVID-19 anti-viral drug nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, sold under the brand name Paxlovid. A five-day course of the drug to treat COVID will soon cost patients $1,390. According to researchers, it costs Pfizer $13 to manufacture the supply of pills […]
Poster Child for COVID Shot in Israel Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack
The “poster child” for the Israeli government’s national campaign to vaccinate children in Israel against COVID-19 died on Sept. 28, 2023, a few days after suffering a sudden heart attack while taking a bath. The child, eight-year-old Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, was featured in a 12-minute promotional video produced by the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in […]