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For a virus that presents "few to no symptoms" for the majority, "U.S. Orders Up to 600 Million Doses of #Pfizer, BioNTech Covid #Vaccine" (Bloomberg).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/pfizer-biontech-receive-u-s-order-for-covid-vaccine
So let's take a look at Pfizer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/pfizer-biontech-receive-u-s-order-for-covid-vaccine
So let's take a look at Pfizer.
"Pfizer is a publicly-traded global pharma corp.headquartered in NYC. Its revenues reached $52.5 billion in 2017. #Pfizer makes Advil, Xanax, #DepoProvera, Neosporin, #Lyrica & Dimetapp. Pfizer manufacturers more than 350 different pharmaceuticals & operates in 180 countries.
Pfizer's Lyrica, the new vallium, linked to depression, anxiety & suicide, now top pain medication on PBS. #Pregabalin #Addiction. Addicts of #hydromorphone ( #Opioid) (Pfizer) have found a new addiction w/ #Lyrica. Capsules are opened, crushed & snorted. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-deaths-linked-to-the-new-valium-pregabalin-double-in-year-0zxm69tf7
September 2, 2009: "US Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History
#Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for #Fraudulent #Marketing" https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
#Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for #Fraudulent #Marketing" https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
Ongoing lawsuits against #Pfizer over Protonix. #Lawsuits charge that Pfizer failed to warn about the risk of kidney disease, injury, failure & acute interstitial nephritis.
2016: "Pfizer Agrees to Two Protonix Settlements Totaling $839 Million": https://www.drugwatch.com/proton-pump-inhibitors/lawsuits/
2016: "Pfizer Agrees to Two Protonix Settlements Totaling $839 Million": https://www.drugwatch.com/proton-pump-inhibitors/lawsuits/
#Prempro: "Nearly 10,000 women filed Prempro #breastcancer lawsuits against #Pfizer. By 2012, Pfizer settled most of the claims for more than $1 billion." https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/prempro-settlement-payments-breast-cancer-29138/
Chantix lawsuits against #Pfizer. Chantix caused suicidal thoughts & severe psychological disorders. In 2014 the #Pfizer corporation settled the cases for approximately $300 million. https://www.cssfirm.com/2014/12/09/chantix-lawsuits-settled-300-million/
In 1996, #Pfizer conducted an unapproved clinical trial on #children with #meningitis in #Nigeria. "Eleven children died and dozens were left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, #Trovan."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/11/pfizer-nigeria-meningitis-drug-compensation
#Africa #Colonialism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/11/pfizer-nigeria-meningitis-drug-compensation
#Africa #Colonialism
Biggest ever pharma #lawsuits by settlement amount as of June 25 2019. Ranking the top ten:
1. #GlaxoSmithKline – $3bn
2. Takeda Pharmaceutical – $2.4bn
3. Pfizer – $2.3bn
4. Johnson & Johnson – $2.2bn
5. Abbott Laboratories – $1.5bn https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/biggest-pharmaceutical-lawsuits/
1. #GlaxoSmithKline – $3bn
2. Takeda Pharmaceutical – $2.4bn
3. Pfizer – $2.3bn
4. Johnson & Johnson – $2.2bn
5. Abbott Laboratories – $1.5bn https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/biggest-pharmaceutical-lawsuits/
6. Eli Lilly and Company – $1.4bn
7. Merck – $950m
8. TAP Pharmaceutical – $875m
9. Bayer and Johnson & Johnson – $775m
10. Amgen – $762m
#Pfizer & #BioNTech stocks rose Monday after the corporations agreed to supply 30 million doses of their coronavirus #vaccine to the U.K.
7. Merck – $950m
8. TAP Pharmaceutical – $875m
9. Bayer and Johnson & Johnson – $775m
10. Amgen – $762m
#Pfizer & #BioNTech stocks rose Monday after the corporations agreed to supply 30 million doses of their coronavirus #vaccine to the U.K.
"In [] 2012 the US Sec. & Exchange Comm. announced that it had reached a $45 million settlement w/ #Pfizer to resolve charges that its subsidiaries, especially Wyeth, had #bribed overseas #doctors & other #healthcare profs to increase foreign sales."
https://www.corp-research.org/pfizer
https://www.corp-research.org/pfizer
"In 1971 the #EPA asked #Pfizer to end its long-time practice of dumping #industrial #wastes from its plant in Groton, #Connecticut in the Long Island Sound. The company was reported to be disposing of about 1 million gallons of waste each year by that method."
"In 1991 #Pfizer agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle #EPA charges that the company seriously damaged the #Delaware #River by failing to install #pollution-control equipment at one of its plants in Pennsylvania."
