What Every Parent Must Know About Pfizer

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By Michelle Malkin

The CEO of Pfizer (market cap: $240.5 billion) is Albert Bourla (2020 compensation package: $21 million). Bourla and his colleagues want your kids to start getting jabbed with his company’s COVID-19 vaccine by Thanksgiving. Triumphant after the Biden administration last week approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shots (estimated global sales: $26 billion), the company is touting study results (preliminary and non-peer-reviewed), which purportedly show “robust” antibody response and “favorable” safety outcomes for children ages 5-11 who received a two-dose combo in clinical trials.
 
Now, here are some facts all moms and dads must know about Pfizer before they allow their young daughters and sons to be guinea pigs of a profit-maximizing multinational corporation.
 
Twenty-five years ago, Pfizer sent a team to Kano, Nigeria, during a meningococcal meningitis outbreak. They conducted an “open label” (unblinded) clinical trial involving 200 children, half of whom were given Pfizer’s new antibiotic Trovan and half of whom received the gold standard treatment, ceftriaxone. Watchdogs noted that Pfizer used substantially lower doses of Trovan to rig the trials in favor of Trovan.
 
At the time of the Kano trial, Pfizer was pushing for approval from the Food and Drug Administration of their latest potential billion-dollar cash cow for pediatric use. Eleven Nigerian children died, five after receiving Pfizer’s product and six after receiving lower-than-normal doses of the older drug.
 

 
Pay close attention, parents. A Washington Post investigation reported that one 10-year-old girl suffering from meningitis was not taken off experimental Trovan and given standard, proven treatments by Pfizer’s clinical trial operators — when it was clear that her condition was deteriorating. One of her eyes froze. She lost strength and then died. A Nigerian doctor who supervised the studies for Pfizer admitted that his office had “backdated an approval letter” for the human trials, which “may have been written a year after the study had taken place.” Informed consent was undermined by language and education barriers.
 
One outraged African newspaper demanded that the government “tell us whether our children were used as guinea pigs and, if so, who committed such criminality and who is liable.” After years of protracted litigation with the pharmaceutical behemoth, Nigerian families reached a $75 million out-of-court settlement sealed with a confidentiality clause.
 
A separate whistleblower lawsuit filed by Pfizer’s former associate medical director for central research and Yale pediatric infectious disease specialist, Juan Walterspiel, alleged that the company fired him in retaliation for warning before and after the deadly Kano fiasco that the study methods were “improper and unsafe.” Walterspiel further claimed that Pfizer had bribed Nigerian officials to continue the study and cut safety corners because “stock options and bonuses (were) at stake.”
 
Pfizer tried to suppress Walterspiel’s allegations but was forced into a settlement after WikiLeaks published diplomatic cables showing that Pfizer had attempted to dig up dirt on a Nigerian prosecutor to bully him into dropping lawsuits by state and federal authorities in Africa.
 



 
A secret internal Nigerian government report, leaked years after it had been written, concluded that Pfizer violated international law by conducting an “illegal trial of an unregistered drug” and failing to inform children’s parents that the meningitis treatment was experimental. The government panel called the Trovan tragedy a “clear case of exploitation of the ignorant.”
 
If you think this corruption was all an anomaly or misunderstood altruism or “misinformation,” I encourage you to start doing your own homework before your child’s health and life become just another cost of doing Big Pharma business.
 
Search the internet and PubMed (while you still can) for “Pfizer,” “Celebrex,” “Bextra,” “Geodon,” “Zyvox,” “Lyrica” and “Neurontin.”
 
Find out more about why Pfizer paid the largest fine for health care fraud in American history ($2.3 billion) in 2009 to resolve allegations that it illegally caused false claims to be submitted to the government and paid kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe their products.

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I would have to give Pfizer credit for understanding that getting away with that scumbaggery in the US would be far more difficult than sweeping it under the rug 25 years ago in Africa. That being said, it would be a travesty to force parents to have their children vaccinated.

What I am very curious about is how much Pfizer is kicking back to the Biden Crime Family and others. There is a reason to completely ignore the medical science of natural immunity and any complicating factors already known and try to force the vaccination upon everyone across the board, not to mention the boosters.

REVEALED: Pfizer Lobbying Hits Decade High as DOZENS of High-Profile Political Appointees Become Big Pharma Reps.

Republicans and Democrats alike are now working for the Big Pharma lobby

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent vaccine rollout, pharmaceutical giants including Pfizer and Moderna have substantially increased their lobbying efforts, a National Pulse investigation has revealed.

The lobbying apparatuses at both vaccine-reliant companies – in terms of the number of lobbyists hired and the overall budget deployed to influence government officials – have seen dramatic increases since 2019.

The news comes one day after hidden camera footage revealed a Pfizer scientist admitting: “Basically, our organization is run on COVID money now.”

Democrat Operatives Turn Vax Lobbyists.

Many of the new Big Pharma hires have come from consulting firms with deep and historical links to the current White House, and President Joe Biden himself.

In October alone Pfizer tapped Sudafi Henry, Joe Biden’s former legislative affairs director from his days as Vice President.
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ARE: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN; BRUCE REED, CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE VICE PRESIDENT; SUDAFI HENRY, ASSISTANT TO THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS; AND ROB NABORS, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS. (OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY DAVID LIENEMANN)

Another recent hire is Kwabena Nsiah, a former staffer for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and top aide to director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Nsiah also worked in Congress for over eight years, most recently as Policy Director for the Congressional Black Caucus and on the Joint Economic Committee as a Senior Policy Advisor.

RINOs Turn Vax Lobbyists, Too.

Among Pfizer’s robust lobbying team are alumni of Republican presidential administrations and Congressional offices.

Justin McCarthy, who served under George W. Bush as a Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and Ben Howard, who served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs under Donald Trump, both lobby for the pharmaceutical giant.

David Schiappa, a longtime Republican staff member of the Senate holding the role of Secretary for Leader Mitch McConnell, is also lobbying for Pfizer.

Pfizer, which recently received approval for a third booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, has substantially increased its lobbying budget. In 2019, the company spent $11,000,000 on lobbying efforts before increasing the total to $13,150,000 – the highest total since 2010.

In 2019, the company retained 77 lobbyists before the total grew to a team of 102 lobbyists in 2020. So far in 2021, Pfizer has declared 92 lobbyists.
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PFIZER LOBBYING.

While Moderna retained just one lobbyist throughout all of 2019 and added one lobbyist the following year, in 2021, the company has already hired an additional twelve lobbyists, representing a 600 percent increase in the company’s total lobbying force.

In 2019, Moderna spent $40,000 on lobbying and $280,000 in 2020, and just halfway into 2021, the company has already spent $290,000.

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The real scandal, however, is represented in the sheer number of political operatives who have recently gone on to work for Big Pharma, from both Democrat and Republican offices.

The National Pulse has assembled a list of those declared by Pfizer and Moderna alone, below. The list includes their previous jobs or affiliations. Of the 83 listed below, many come from high level backgrounds such as the White House, presidential candidates, the Speaker of the House’s office, and a number of congressional offices.

Pfizer.

Justin McCarthy, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs under President George W. Bush
Brian Arthur Pomper, Chief International Trade Counsel to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus
Bill Morley, General Counsel to Senator Arlen Specter
Remy Brim, Senior Health Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren
Mark Mioduski, Democratic Clerk for the Committee on Appropriations in the U.S. House of Representatives
Brian Griffin, Senior Leadership Advisor and Floor Policy Director for Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Senator Byron Dorgan
Ben Howard, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs under President Donald Trump
Kate Keating, Chief of Staff to Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Congressman Joseph Crowley
David Schiappa, Secretary to Senate Republican Leaders
Lavita Legrys, Director at the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama
Mike Mckay, Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Gregory Meeks
Cristina Antelo, Legal Fellow with the Senate Democratic Steering Committee
Tom Davis, former Congressman
Michael Werner, Policy Advisor to Senate Democrats Policy Committee
Daniel Elling, Staff Director for the House Committee on Ways and Means
Cookab Hashemi, Chief of Staff to Representative Raul Ruiz and Representative Jackie Speier
Robert Holifield, Staff Director of the Senate Agriculture Committee
Hannah Smith, Legislative Correspondent to Senator Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln, Former Senator and Congresswoman
Colin Roskey, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump
Thomas Scully, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Bush.
Brian Diffell, Legislative Director to Senator Roy Blunt
Kelli Briggs, Chief of Staff to Representative Pat Tiberi
Anne Wilson, Legislative Director to Representative Anna G. Eshoo
Peter Wallace, Legislative Correspondent to Representative Ric Keller
Katharine Hayes, Legislative Correspondent to Representative Mark Schauer
Akshai Datta, Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Ami Bera
Darrel Thompson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intergovernmental and External Affairs to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Shanti Ochs Stanton, Floor Assistant to the Democratic Leaders Office
Natalie Farr, Chief of Staff to Senator Cory Gardner
Steven Elmendorf, Chief of Staff to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt
Steven Irizarry, Senior Counsel for Senate Special Committee on Aging
Stephen Northrup, Health Policy Advisor to Senator Michael Enzi
Jennifer Swenson, Deputy Legislative Director to Senator Pat Roberts
Catherine Robinson, Law Clerk on the Committee on Ways and Means
Emily Mueller, Deputy Legislative Director to Senator Pat Roberts
Stephen Claeys, Trade Counsel on the Committee on Ways and Means
Paula Burg, Director and Senior Advisor for Health and Entitlements on the Senate Budget Committee
Elissa Alben, Senior Counsel for International Trade and Competitiveness on the Senate Committee on Finance
Karissa Willhite, Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Robert Menendez
Gordon Taylor, Chief of Staff to Representative Chris John
Tucker Shumack, Tax and Finance Counsel to Senator Olympia Snowe
Todd Novascone, Chief of Staff to Senator Jerry Moran
Jerome Murray, Chief of Staff to Representative Stacey Plaskett
Moses Mercado, Deputy Chief of Staff to Representative Richard Gephardt
Tim McGivern, Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Brownback
Chris Giblin, Chief of Staff to Representative John Carter
Tony Bullock, Chief of Staff to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dee Buchanan, Chief of Staff to House Republican Conference
Dean Aguillen, Advisor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Eden Shiferaw, Representative Marcia Fudge
Jane Loewenson, Senior Health Policy Advisor to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle
Andrea LaRue, Counsel to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle
Brady King, Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Kendra S. Horn
Joshua Fay Hurvitz, Legislative Director to Representative Anthony D. Weiner
Lisa German Foster, Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Jack Reed
Irene Bueno, Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton in the Domestic Policy Council and Chief of Staff’s Office
Ashley Gunn, Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs to President Trump
Monica Popp, Chief of Staff to Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn
Hazen Marshall, Policy Director to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
Christopher Wilcox, Staff Assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Marti Thomas, Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs under President Clinton
Karina Lynch, Legislative Director to Representative Scott McInnis
Cheryl Jager, Senior Health Policy Advisor for House Republican Leadership
Matthew Hoekstra, Legislative Director for Senator Ben Lujan
Susan Hirschmann, Chief of Staff to Representative Van Hilleary
Christopher Hatcher, Legislative Director to Representative Scott McInnis
Ann Marie Buerkle, Congresswoman
Shimon Stein, Senior Advisor to House Majority Leader/Republican Whip
Kristi Remington, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice under President Obama
Malloy McDaniel, Policy Advisor to Senator Mitch McConnell
Craig Kalkut, Chief Counsel of Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Ashley Davis, Special Assistant to Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge under President Bush
Greg Nickerson, Tax Counsel to Representative Bill Thomas

Moderna.
Darren Willcox, Assistant to Speaker Dennis Hastert for Health Policy
Erin Strawn, Legislative Associate to Representative Joe Cunningham
Valerie Henry, Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Greg Walden
James Derderian, Chief of Staff to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Carmencita Whonder, Advisor on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee to Senator Chuck Schumer
Marc Lampkin, General Counsel for the House Republican Conference
Araceli Gutierrez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Graduate Fellow
Emily Felder, Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Nadeam Elshami, Chief of Staff to Representative Nancy Pelosi

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/pfizer-and-moderna-increase-lobbying-efforts/