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The guinea pigs of Operation Warp Speed
Operation Warp Speed:
The guinea pigs of Operation Warp Speed
By Lynda Carson - November 14, 2020
Big Pharma is using Americans as guinea pigs for the covid-19 vaccines being promoted by and distributed by Operation Warp Speed.
Yesterday, the impeached President Donald J. Trump, came out of hiding inside the White House after losing his re-election bid to Joe Biden. Trump held an event at the White House Rose Garden to take credit for Operation Warp Speed yesterday, while presently refusing to admit that he lost his re-election bid, and is falsely claiming that it was a rigged election, while falsely claiming that he won the election by a lot.
Operation Warp Speed
According to Wikipedia, “Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a public–private partnership, initiated by the U.S. government, to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Operation Warp Speed was introduced in early April 2020, after a round-table meeting with industry executives at the White House on March 2. It will promote mass production of multiple vaccines based on preliminary evidence allowing for faster distribution if clinical trials confirm one of the vaccines is safe and effective. The plan anticipates that some of these vaccines will not prove safe or effective, making the program more costly than typical vaccine development, but potentially leading to the availability of a viable vaccine several months earlier than typical timelines.”
Additionally, according to Wikipedia, “Operation Warp Speed is an interagency program that includes components of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; the Department of Defense; private firms; and other federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.” See Operation Warp Speed Chart further below…
Among Big Pharma participants in Operation Warp Speed that were involved in the opioid settlement lawsuits in recent years, because tens of thousands of Americans died from opioid drug over doses promoted by Big Pharma, they include Pfizer, and Merck, makers of covid-19 mRNA vaccines.
Human Guinea Pigs Are Being Used For Testing COVID-19 And mRNA Vaccines
Reportedly, “Despite the unprecedented speed, mRNA vaccines are clinically unproven. No commercially available vaccines use the platform and, until now, it hasn’t been tested in large-scale human trials. With COVID-19, that’s all set to change. Experts said in interviews that if the technology pans out, the pandemic could help to usher in a new plug-and-play approach to vaccinology.”
Reportedly, on November 9, 2020, “Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, against SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrated evidence of efficacy against COVID-19 in participants without prior evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on the first interim efficacy analysis conducted on November 8, 2020 by an external, independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) from the Phase 3 clinical study.”
Additionally, according to reports, “Researchers have an incomplete understanding of the coronavirus and are using technology that’s largely unproven. Among many worries: A handful of studies on COVID-19 survivors suggest that antibodies — key immune system proteins that fight infection — begin to disappear within months. That’s led scientists to worry that the protection provided by vaccines could fade quickly as well. Some even question whether vaccines will really end the pandemic. If vaccines produce limited protection against infection, experts note, people will need to continue wearing masks and social distancing even after vaccines roll out.”
Meanwhile, Operation Warp Speed is very moving fast, and Big Pharma wants to roll out their experimental vaccines to the guinea pigs (American public) whether the vaccines work longterm or not, as it appears that people may still have to wear face masks and practice social distancing after being vaccinated. Additionally, the military will play a roll in distributing the experimental vaccines used on the guinea pigs (American Public) by Big Pharma.
Center For Health Security Announces The Public’s Role In Covid-19 Vaccination — In The Face Of The Public’s Concern’s To Being Used As Guinea Pigs By Big Pharma:
According to a PDF release from the Center For Health Security; “OWS, HHS, CDC, and state and local health officials should develop operational systems that involve nontraditional civilian partners and instill public confidence that vaccine distribution is evenhanded. Involving civil rights groups and health advocacy organizations, including the NAACP, the National Urban League, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Disability Rights Network, the American Association of Retired Persons, the National Immigration Project, Unidos, Partnership with Native Americans, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, the National Rural Health Association, Doctors Without Borders, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, can bolster the equitable delivery of vaccines and instill public trust in the vaccination process.” See page 16.
To pressure people into becoming guinea pigs for Big Pharma, the ‘powers-that-be’ may try to scare people into believing that they may lose their benefits from the WIC Nutrition Program, rental services or they may pressure people using free clinic services, to get vaccinated with the experimental vaccines.
On page 20 it states; “Local and state public health agencies should explore collaboration with interagency and nongovernment partners to bundle vaccination with other safety net services.”
“For example, the WIC nutrition program serves as a key mechanism for connecting low-income pregnant women with nutrition supports and clinical services, and immunization screenings and vaccine promotion are built into the WIC program. Bundling services (eg, food security, rent assistance, free clinic services) that are already being provided to particularly vulnerable populations in the context of COVID (eg, older adults, low-income adults, Black and minority communities) could be a way to build trust and streamline vaccine provision. Early, rapid-response, community-based research (Recommendation #4) can help broaden planners’ understanding of how the intended beneficiaries of vaccines think about where these products fit into their lives overall, based on their own definitions of health and well-being.”
At Times Guinea Pigs Do Not Fare Very Well From The Experiments They Are Involved In:
Why would people be concerned about being used as guinea pigs? The Tuskegge Patient Medical Files in the National Archives may help to shed some light on why people are concerned about being used as guinea pigs ( https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1078560 ) by the government, and Big Pharma.
According to the National Archives about those who were used as guinea pigs listed in the ‘Tuskegge Patient Medical Files’, “This series contains patient medical records from the Tuskegee syphilis study. A typical patient file includes a personal history, initial medical examination and subsequent examinations, electrocardiography charts, and laboratory results. A file may also include autopsy results, letters attempting to locate the patient or surviving family members, and notice of payment to the patient or next of kin.”
Or people can check out some information about the human radiation experiments used on people in the United States by clicking here, or by clicking here for the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
If interested, you may check out the human plutonium injection experiments, by clicking here, to see how some guinea pigs have fared from experiments.
Another experiment with human guinea pigs was called Project SHAD, “The Shipboard Hazard and Defense Project (SHAD) was a series of tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s to determine how well service members aboard military ships could detect and respond to chemical and biological attacks. Dee Dodson Morris of the Army Chemical Corps who coordinated the ongoing investigation, says, "The SHAD tests were intended to show how vulnerable Navy ships were to chemical or biological warfare agents. The objective was to learn how chemical or biological warfare agents would disperse throughout a ship, and to use that information to develop procedures to protect crew members and decontaminate ships.”
The use of Depleted Uranium weapons by Bush/Cheney ended up as nukes against American Troops as well as the people of Iraq.
It appears that there are a number of good reasons why the American public is a bit concerned about being used as guinea pigs by the government, such as they are planning with the covid-19 vaccines of Big Pharma.
Additionally, it appears that the American public is caught between a coronavirus covid-19 pandemic, and the experimental vaccines that Big Pharma and the government wants to use on us. What a world…
Indeed, any way you look at the situation. In Alameda County, if people end up dying from the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic that has killed over 230,000 Americans across the nation, or if they die while being guinea pigs for Big Pharma, and their experimental vaccines, there is the coroners office, the morgue, and the ghoulish financial charges for the dead, unless you are indigent.
Lynda Carson may be reached at newzland2 [at] gmail.com
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By Lynda Carson - November 14, 2020
Big Pharma is using Americans as guinea pigs for the covid-19 vaccines being promoted by and distributed by Operation Warp Speed.
Yesterday, the impeached President Donald J. Trump, came out of hiding inside the White House after losing his re-election bid to Joe Biden. Trump held an event at the White House Rose Garden to take credit for Operation Warp Speed yesterday, while presently refusing to admit that he lost his re-election bid, and is falsely claiming that it was a rigged election, while falsely claiming that he won the election by a lot.
Operation Warp Speed
According to Wikipedia, “Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is a public–private partnership, initiated by the U.S. government, to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Operation Warp Speed was introduced in early April 2020, after a round-table meeting with industry executives at the White House on March 2. It will promote mass production of multiple vaccines based on preliminary evidence allowing for faster distribution if clinical trials confirm one of the vaccines is safe and effective. The plan anticipates that some of these vaccines will not prove safe or effective, making the program more costly than typical vaccine development, but potentially leading to the availability of a viable vaccine several months earlier than typical timelines.”
Additionally, according to Wikipedia, “Operation Warp Speed is an interagency program that includes components of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; the Department of Defense; private firms; and other federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.” See Operation Warp Speed Chart further below…
Among Big Pharma participants in Operation Warp Speed that were involved in the opioid settlement lawsuits in recent years, because tens of thousands of Americans died from opioid drug over doses promoted by Big Pharma, they include Pfizer, and Merck, makers of covid-19 mRNA vaccines.
Human Guinea Pigs Are Being Used For Testing COVID-19 And mRNA Vaccines
Reportedly, “Despite the unprecedented speed, mRNA vaccines are clinically unproven. No commercially available vaccines use the platform and, until now, it hasn’t been tested in large-scale human trials. With COVID-19, that’s all set to change. Experts said in interviews that if the technology pans out, the pandemic could help to usher in a new plug-and-play approach to vaccinology.”
Reportedly, on November 9, 2020, “Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, against SARS-CoV-2 has demonstrated evidence of efficacy against COVID-19 in participants without prior evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on the first interim efficacy analysis conducted on November 8, 2020 by an external, independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) from the Phase 3 clinical study.”
Additionally, according to reports, “Researchers have an incomplete understanding of the coronavirus and are using technology that’s largely unproven. Among many worries: A handful of studies on COVID-19 survivors suggest that antibodies — key immune system proteins that fight infection — begin to disappear within months. That’s led scientists to worry that the protection provided by vaccines could fade quickly as well. Some even question whether vaccines will really end the pandemic. If vaccines produce limited protection against infection, experts note, people will need to continue wearing masks and social distancing even after vaccines roll out.”
Meanwhile, Operation Warp Speed is very moving fast, and Big Pharma wants to roll out their experimental vaccines to the guinea pigs (American public) whether the vaccines work longterm or not, as it appears that people may still have to wear face masks and practice social distancing after being vaccinated. Additionally, the military will play a roll in distributing the experimental vaccines used on the guinea pigs (American Public) by Big Pharma.
Center For Health Security Announces The Public’s Role In Covid-19 Vaccination — In The Face Of The Public’s Concern’s To Being Used As Guinea Pigs By Big Pharma:
According to a PDF release from the Center For Health Security; “OWS, HHS, CDC, and state and local health officials should develop operational systems that involve nontraditional civilian partners and instill public confidence that vaccine distribution is evenhanded. Involving civil rights groups and health advocacy organizations, including the NAACP, the National Urban League, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Disability Rights Network, the American Association of Retired Persons, the National Immigration Project, Unidos, Partnership with Native Americans, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, the National Rural Health Association, Doctors Without Borders, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, can bolster the equitable delivery of vaccines and instill public trust in the vaccination process.” See page 16.
To pressure people into becoming guinea pigs for Big Pharma, the ‘powers-that-be’ may try to scare people into believing that they may lose their benefits from the WIC Nutrition Program, rental services or they may pressure people using free clinic services, to get vaccinated with the experimental vaccines.
On page 20 it states; “Local and state public health agencies should explore collaboration with interagency and nongovernment partners to bundle vaccination with other safety net services.”
“For example, the WIC nutrition program serves as a key mechanism for connecting low-income pregnant women with nutrition supports and clinical services, and immunization screenings and vaccine promotion are built into the WIC program. Bundling services (eg, food security, rent assistance, free clinic services) that are already being provided to particularly vulnerable populations in the context of COVID (eg, older adults, low-income adults, Black and minority communities) could be a way to build trust and streamline vaccine provision. Early, rapid-response, community-based research (Recommendation #4) can help broaden planners’ understanding of how the intended beneficiaries of vaccines think about where these products fit into their lives overall, based on their own definitions of health and well-being.”
At Times Guinea Pigs Do Not Fare Very Well From The Experiments They Are Involved In:
Why would people be concerned about being used as guinea pigs? The Tuskegge Patient Medical Files in the National Archives may help to shed some light on why people are concerned about being used as guinea pigs ( https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1078560 ) by the government, and Big Pharma.
According to the National Archives about those who were used as guinea pigs listed in the ‘Tuskegge Patient Medical Files’, “This series contains patient medical records from the Tuskegee syphilis study. A typical patient file includes a personal history, initial medical examination and subsequent examinations, electrocardiography charts, and laboratory results. A file may also include autopsy results, letters attempting to locate the patient or surviving family members, and notice of payment to the patient or next of kin.”
Or people can check out some information about the human radiation experiments used on people in the United States by clicking here, or by clicking here for the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
If interested, you may check out the human plutonium injection experiments, by clicking here, to see how some guinea pigs have fared from experiments.
Another experiment with human guinea pigs was called Project SHAD, “The Shipboard Hazard and Defense Project (SHAD) was a series of tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s to determine how well service members aboard military ships could detect and respond to chemical and biological attacks. Dee Dodson Morris of the Army Chemical Corps who coordinated the ongoing investigation, says, "The SHAD tests were intended to show how vulnerable Navy ships were to chemical or biological warfare agents. The objective was to learn how chemical or biological warfare agents would disperse throughout a ship, and to use that information to develop procedures to protect crew members and decontaminate ships.”
The use of Depleted Uranium weapons by Bush/Cheney ended up as nukes against American Troops as well as the people of Iraq.
It appears that there are a number of good reasons why the American public is a bit concerned about being used as guinea pigs by the government, such as they are planning with the covid-19 vaccines of Big Pharma.
Additionally, it appears that the American public is caught between a coronavirus covid-19 pandemic, and the experimental vaccines that Big Pharma and the government wants to use on us. What a world…
Indeed, any way you look at the situation. In Alameda County, if people end up dying from the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic that has killed over 230,000 Americans across the nation, or if they die while being guinea pigs for Big Pharma, and their experimental vaccines, there is the coroners office, the morgue, and the ghoulish financial charges for the dead, unless you are indigent.
Lynda Carson may be reached at newzland2 [at] gmail.com
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November 16, 2020
Statement: Moderna Vaccine Belongs to the People
https://www.citizen.org/news/statement-moderna-vaccine-belongs-to-the-people/
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced “promising interim results” from phase III clinical trial data of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which was co-developed by Moderna, Inc. and the National Institutes of Health. Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program, released this statement:
“This is the people’s vaccine. The NIH’s vaccine. It is not merely Moderna’s vaccine. Federal scientists helped invent it and taxpayers are funding its development. We all have played a role. It should belong to humanity.
“Both the current administration and President-elect Biden have the opportunity to make this vaccine a public good that is free and available to all and help scale up global manufacturing, in order to prevent medical rationing that could become a form of global vaccine apartheid.
“If the NIH vaccine proves safe and effective, it could be one of the most important medical tools of our time. But limited supply could keep this vaccine out of reach for billions of people worldwide, extending their suffering for several years.”
Public Citizen previously published a report showing that, in addition to the U.S. government’s early investments, the government has filed patents related to the vaccine and will likely have an ownership stake in the vaccine technology. Moderna has relied on a stabilized spike protein developed by the U.S. government. The U.S. government also funded 100% of Moderna’s project to bring the vaccine to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval. Taxpayers also paid twice when the Trump administration paid Moderna an additional $1.5 billion to secure doses in advance.
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(Big Pharma)
September 27, 2017 10:27 AM EDT
Right after Trump blamed high drug prices on campaign cash, drugmakers gave more
Kaiser Health News
“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He went on about how identical pills have vastly lower price tags in Europe.
“You know why?” the president asked, before spreading his hands wide. “Campaign contributions, who knows. But somebody is getting very rich.”
It was March 20, 2017.
The next day, drugmakers donated more money to political campaigns than they had on any other day in 2017 so far, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of campaign spending in the first half of the year reported in Federal Election Commission filings.
Eight pharmaceutical political action committees made 134 contributions, spread over 77 politicians, on March 21. They spent $279,400 in all, showering Republicans and Democrats in both legislative bodies with campaign cash, according to FEC filings. The second-highest one-day contribution tally was $203,500, on June 20.
FEC records show Merck’s PAC led the way that day, donating $148,000 to 60 candidates on March 21. House speaker Paul Ryan received three maximum contributions to his various PACs from the drugmaker, totaling $15,000. Behind him with $7,500 was Senator Tom Carper (D-Delawre), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee.
Overall, FEC records show Merck spent $242,500 on campaign contributions and $3.7 million on lobbying in the first half of 2017.
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk PACs donated $76,900 and $38,500 on March 21, respectively, to several dozen candidates on March 21, according to their filings. Five additional pharmaceutical PACs spent between $1,000 and $5,000 on contributions that day.
Pfizer’s PAC donated more than any pharmaceutical PAC in the first half of 2017, contributing $418,400 in all — nearly 70 percent more than the first six months of the 2015 election cycle, according to FEC records. In February of this year, the company’s CEO was among several executives from drugmaking firms and other global companies to pen a letter to Congress in support of tax reform. In December 2016, Pfizer received a letter from the Senate Special Committee on Aging, asking it to explain its price increases for the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone.
Click below for full story…
https://endpts.com/right-after-trump-blamed-high-drug-prices-on-campaign-cash-drugmakers-gave-more/
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'Bad Optics' Or Something More? Moderna Executives' Stock Sales Raise Concerns
September 4, 2020 5:00 AM ET
Since January, CEO Stéphane Bancel has sold roughly $40 million worth of Moderna stock held by himself or associated investment funds; Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks has sold around $60 million; and President Stephen Hoge has sold more than $10 million.
Click below...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/908305074/bad-optics-or-something-more-moderna-executives-stock-sales-raise-concerns
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August 11, 2020
Trump To Pay Moderna $1.5 Billion for Vaccine Candidate Likely Co-Owned by U.S. Government
Click below…
https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-to-pay-moderna-1-5-billion-for-vaccine-candidate-likely-co-owned-by-u-s-government/
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Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus
August 10, 2020
Interactives by Kaitlyn Bartley
Story by Lev Facher @levfacher
Click below…
https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics/
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( Moncef Slaoui is Trump's vaccine chief)
New York Times
Trump’s Vaccine Chief Has Vast Ties to Drug Industry, Posing Possible Conflicts
The chief scientist brought on to lead the Trump administration’s vaccine efforts has spent the last several days trying to disentangle pieces of his stock portfolio and his intricate ties to big pharmaceutical interests, as critics point to the potential for significant conflicts of interest.
The scientist, Moncef Slaoui, is a venture capitalist and a former longtime executive at GlaxoSmithKline. Most recently, he sat on the board of Moderna, a Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology firm with a $30 billion valuation that is pursuing a coronavirus vaccine. He resigned when President Trump named him last Thursday to the new post as chief adviser for Operation Warp Speed, the federal drive for coronavirus vaccines and treatments.
Just days into his job, the extent of Dr. Slaoui’s financial interests in drug companies has begun to emerge: The value of his stock holdings in Moderna jumped nearly $2.4 million, to $12.4 million when the company released preliminary, partial data from an early phase of its candidate vaccine trial that helped send the markets soaring on Monday.
In agreeing to accept the position, Dr. Slaoui did not come on board as a government employee. Instead, he is on a contract, receiving $1 for his service. That leaves him exempt from federal disclosure rules that would require him to list his outside positions, stock holdings and other potential conflicts. And the contract position is not subject to the same conflict-of-interest laws and regulations that executive branch employees must follow.
Click below full story…
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/health/coronavirus-vaccine-czar.html
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Pfizer campaign contributions
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfizer-inc/summary?id=D000000138
Albert Bourla, is the CEO of Pfizer (campaign contributions)
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Albert+Bourla+
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202010129285128540
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Frank D’Amelio, CFO & EVP of Pfizer (Campaign contributions)
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Frank+D%27Amelio+
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Michael G. Dolsten (campaign contributions)
Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical of Pfizer Inc.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Mikael+Dolsten
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Statement: Moderna Vaccine Belongs to the People
https://www.citizen.org/news/statement-moderna-vaccine-belongs-to-the-people/
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced “promising interim results” from phase III clinical trial data of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which was co-developed by Moderna, Inc. and the National Institutes of Health. Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program, released this statement:
“This is the people’s vaccine. The NIH’s vaccine. It is not merely Moderna’s vaccine. Federal scientists helped invent it and taxpayers are funding its development. We all have played a role. It should belong to humanity.
“Both the current administration and President-elect Biden have the opportunity to make this vaccine a public good that is free and available to all and help scale up global manufacturing, in order to prevent medical rationing that could become a form of global vaccine apartheid.
“If the NIH vaccine proves safe and effective, it could be one of the most important medical tools of our time. But limited supply could keep this vaccine out of reach for billions of people worldwide, extending their suffering for several years.”
Public Citizen previously published a report showing that, in addition to the U.S. government’s early investments, the government has filed patents related to the vaccine and will likely have an ownership stake in the vaccine technology. Moderna has relied on a stabilized spike protein developed by the U.S. government. The U.S. government also funded 100% of Moderna’s project to bring the vaccine to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval. Taxpayers also paid twice when the Trump administration paid Moderna an additional $1.5 billion to secure doses in advance.
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(Big Pharma)
September 27, 2017 10:27 AM EDT
Right after Trump blamed high drug prices on campaign cash, drugmakers gave more
Kaiser Health News
“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He went on about how identical pills have vastly lower price tags in Europe.
“You know why?” the president asked, before spreading his hands wide. “Campaign contributions, who knows. But somebody is getting very rich.”
It was March 20, 2017.
The next day, drugmakers donated more money to political campaigns than they had on any other day in 2017 so far, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of campaign spending in the first half of the year reported in Federal Election Commission filings.
Eight pharmaceutical political action committees made 134 contributions, spread over 77 politicians, on March 21. They spent $279,400 in all, showering Republicans and Democrats in both legislative bodies with campaign cash, according to FEC filings. The second-highest one-day contribution tally was $203,500, on June 20.
FEC records show Merck’s PAC led the way that day, donating $148,000 to 60 candidates on March 21. House speaker Paul Ryan received three maximum contributions to his various PACs from the drugmaker, totaling $15,000. Behind him with $7,500 was Senator Tom Carper (D-Delawre), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee.
Overall, FEC records show Merck spent $242,500 on campaign contributions and $3.7 million on lobbying in the first half of 2017.
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk PACs donated $76,900 and $38,500 on March 21, respectively, to several dozen candidates on March 21, according to their filings. Five additional pharmaceutical PACs spent between $1,000 and $5,000 on contributions that day.
Pfizer’s PAC donated more than any pharmaceutical PAC in the first half of 2017, contributing $418,400 in all — nearly 70 percent more than the first six months of the 2015 election cycle, according to FEC records. In February of this year, the company’s CEO was among several executives from drugmaking firms and other global companies to pen a letter to Congress in support of tax reform. In December 2016, Pfizer received a letter from the Senate Special Committee on Aging, asking it to explain its price increases for the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone.
Click below for full story…
https://endpts.com/right-after-trump-blamed-high-drug-prices-on-campaign-cash-drugmakers-gave-more/
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'Bad Optics' Or Something More? Moderna Executives' Stock Sales Raise Concerns
September 4, 2020 5:00 AM ET
Since January, CEO Stéphane Bancel has sold roughly $40 million worth of Moderna stock held by himself or associated investment funds; Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks has sold around $60 million; and President Stephen Hoge has sold more than $10 million.
Click below...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/908305074/bad-optics-or-something-more-moderna-executives-stock-sales-raise-concerns
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August 11, 2020
Trump To Pay Moderna $1.5 Billion for Vaccine Candidate Likely Co-Owned by U.S. Government
Click below…
https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-to-pay-moderna-1-5-billion-for-vaccine-candidate-likely-co-owned-by-u-s-government/
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Pharma is showering Congress with cash, even as drug makers race to fight the coronavirus
August 10, 2020
Interactives by Kaitlyn Bartley
Story by Lev Facher @levfacher
Click below…
https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics/
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( Moncef Slaoui is Trump's vaccine chief)
New York Times
Trump’s Vaccine Chief Has Vast Ties to Drug Industry, Posing Possible Conflicts
The chief scientist brought on to lead the Trump administration’s vaccine efforts has spent the last several days trying to disentangle pieces of his stock portfolio and his intricate ties to big pharmaceutical interests, as critics point to the potential for significant conflicts of interest.
The scientist, Moncef Slaoui, is a venture capitalist and a former longtime executive at GlaxoSmithKline. Most recently, he sat on the board of Moderna, a Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology firm with a $30 billion valuation that is pursuing a coronavirus vaccine. He resigned when President Trump named him last Thursday to the new post as chief adviser for Operation Warp Speed, the federal drive for coronavirus vaccines and treatments.
Just days into his job, the extent of Dr. Slaoui’s financial interests in drug companies has begun to emerge: The value of his stock holdings in Moderna jumped nearly $2.4 million, to $12.4 million when the company released preliminary, partial data from an early phase of its candidate vaccine trial that helped send the markets soaring on Monday.
In agreeing to accept the position, Dr. Slaoui did not come on board as a government employee. Instead, he is on a contract, receiving $1 for his service. That leaves him exempt from federal disclosure rules that would require him to list his outside positions, stock holdings and other potential conflicts. And the contract position is not subject to the same conflict-of-interest laws and regulations that executive branch employees must follow.
Click below full story…
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/health/coronavirus-vaccine-czar.html
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Pfizer campaign contributions
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfizer-inc/summary?id=D000000138
Albert Bourla, is the CEO of Pfizer (campaign contributions)
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Albert+Bourla+
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202010129285128540
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Frank D’Amelio, CFO & EVP of Pfizer (Campaign contributions)
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Frank+D%27Amelio+
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Michael G. Dolsten (campaign contributions)
Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical of Pfizer Inc.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Mikael+Dolsten
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