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Pfizer Agrees to $60 Million Settlement in Kickback Scandal for Allegedly ‘Bribing’ Doctors to Promote Migraine Drug — Defrauding Medicare and Other Federal Health Programs

Big Pharma Pfizer has agreed to a hefty $59.7 million settlement to resolve allegations of a kickback scandal that has defrauded Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.

The scandal revolves around Biohaven Pharmaceutical, a company acquired by Pfizer in October 2022, which engaged in unethical practices to push prescriptions of its migraine medication, Nurtec ODT, also known as Rimegepant.

Whistleblower Patricia Frattasio, a former sales representative at Biohaven, played a crucial role in bringing these malpractices to light, leading to a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act in 2021.

The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed that from March 2020 through September 2022, Biohaven manipulated the healthcare system by offering kickbacks—including speaker honoraria and lavish meals at upscale restaurants—to healthcare professionals.

Allegations include that Biohaven paid some healthcare providers over $100,000 to boost prescriptions of their migraine medication, Nurtec ODT, resulting in fraudulent claims to federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

This egregious scheme involved not just ordinary incentives, but also repeated, unnecessary educational programs that offered no real benefit to attendees, turning these events into mere facades for bribery.

This practice, aimed at increasing Nurtec ODT prescriptions, breached anti-kickback statutes designed to keep medical decisions free from financial influence.

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Official Czech Republic record level data released Nov 2024 confirms Moderna has nearly 50% higher ACM than Pfizer

AFAIK, for the first time in human history a government has voluntarily released vaccine record-level data, the “gold standard” for vaccine safety analysis.

Woo hoo!

It shows the Moderna vaccine is unsafe. And based on other data, Pfizer is too.

The data and the analysis

Here it is: the Czech Republic record level data (1.3GB in size).

Since no epidemiologist in the world is analyzing this data (since it would be a career-limiting move), I guess it’s up to me to tell you what it says.

So I wrote about 150 lines of Python code to analyze it and you can download the summary spreadsheet here and take a look at what I found.

Basically, Moderna is a disaster. It increases All Cause Mortality (ACM) by around 50% relative to Pfizer, and that’s in non-COVID periods. So even if Pfizer is perfectly safe (it isn’t), Moderna should be immediately halted.

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UK Doctors Group That Pushed COVID Shots for Teens Hid Payments From Pfizer

The U.K.’s Royal College of General Practitioners (GP) failed to declare payments it received from Pfizer while it was advocating that children be given the COVID-19 vaccine, The Telegraph reported last week.

The Royal College of GPs, which represents 54,000 GPs, is the U.K.’s professional body for general medical practitioners, similar to the American Medical Association in the U.S.

In 2021, Pfizer gave the organization 102,820 British pounds ($125,558 USD at current exchange rates) through “donations and grants” and “benefits in kind.” That was more than double the 49,324 pounds ($60,232) Pfizer gave the organization in 2020, up from only 4,309 pounds ($5,262) in 2019.

In September 2021, the U.K.’s chief medical officers, the highest-ranking government public health advisers, asked parents to vaccinate their children to keep schools open, according to The Telegraph.

They issued that advice even though the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the government on vaccination, opted not to recommend universal vaccination for 12- to 15-year-olds. The JCVI said the benefits of vaccination for that age group were only “marginally greater than the potential known harms.”

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FDA Orders Pfizer to Add PARALYSIS WARNING to RSV Vaccine Labels

Last Wednesday, the FDA ordered Pfizer and GSK to add Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) as a serious adverse event risk warning to both Pfizer’s Abrysvo and GSK’s Arexy Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine labels.

RSV is the leading cause of respiratory infection in adults over the age of 60. Prior to 2023, the CDC has not published data on the incidence of RSV death in babies and children. In 2023, the CDC estimates that approximately 100 children under the age of 5 died from RSV. Despite these low numbers, the CDC recommends that pregnant women receive an RSV vaccine to ‘protect’ their baby from RSV.

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Pfizer’s secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID

Pfizer tested all participants in their Phase 3 trial for N-antibodies. The results were kept hidden from the public. It was only through court order that we finally know what the results were.

Do you think they would have kept this data secret from the public if it showed good news? Heck no!

The table showed that Pfizer only had around 50% protection if you just take the table at face value. But if you interpret the table correctly, it shows Pfizer had negative efficacy.

In this article, I’ll show you how to properly interpret that data and get the truth.

The method was first disclosed by Jikkyleaks on May 24, 2022.

I recently became aware of it after independently replicating his work. I believe his numbers are slightly off, so I’ll show you the proper calculation for the correct estimate of the case counts.

No doubt about it; those who took the shots were more likely to be infected by COVID by 8.7%.

There is just no other way to interpret the Pfizer data. It’s “gold standard” clinical trial data.

The overall counts are too small for the result to be statistically significant. But the FDA should NEVER be approving a vaccine where the primary endpoint efficacy (reducing cases vs. the unvaccinated group) is so small to be statistically insignificant.

In plain English, the best estimates are that there were actually more infections in the vaccine group than the placebo group. Whoops!

This is a major failing of the FDA to recognize this.

It won’t be long before Senator Ron Johnson brings this to their attention.

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FDA’s Own Study Finds DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccines

A peer-reviewed study performed at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory by high school students has confirmed the presence of a high level of DNA contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

The study, published Dec. 29, 2024, in the Journal of High School Science, was authored by three students at Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia, and performed under the supervision of FDA scientists.

Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., an investigative medical reporter, was the first to report on the study.

The research, performed at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Maryland, found that levels of residual DNA in the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were 6 to 470 times higher than regulatory safety limits. The students tested two lots of the vaccine, finding they contained “residual DNA to a level that exceeds 10 ng [nanograms] per dose.”

“The potential health risk posed by residual small DNA fragments is currently unknown,” the study stated. However, the authors also said that DNA contamination may result in insertional mutagenesis — or DNA mutations — that can cause cancer.

Speaking last month on “The Defender In-Depth,” Kevin McKernan, who first identified DNA contamination in the shots in 2023, said DNA in vaccines can pose health risks because the DNA “could integrate into the genome and cause disruption of the genome … or it could disrupt other genes that are related to cancer.”

The FDA did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the study.

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Two undisclosed deaths in Pfizer Covid vaccine trials

Pfizer-BioNTech did not disclose the deaths of two participants in its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials before the FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) in December 2020. Documents released nearly three years later revealed the deaths of a 63-year-old Kansas woman and a 58-year-old Georgia woman, both classified as “sudden cardiac death.” Researchers have criticized Pfizer for failing to report these incidents within the required 24-hour timeframe, with one case taking 37 days to be filed.

Dr. Jeyanthi Kunadhasan, an Australian anesthesiologist and researcher with the watchdog group Daily Clout, called for an investigation by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. She raised concerns that withholding this information may have impacted the perception of the vaccine’s safety profile.

“If the additional two deaths had been disclosed at the time of the EUA, it would have shown that the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID vaccine intervention provided no reduction in deaths.”
— Dr. Jeyanthi Kunadhasan, Anesthesiologist, Daily Clout

These revelations are part of a broader controversy surrounding transparency. In 2022, a federal court ordered the FDA to release 1.2 million pages of clinical trial documents after rejecting a 75-year delay request. This included the trial data that Pfizer had an opportunity to disclose to the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee but did not.

Kansas Attorney General Kobach has also filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, accusing the company of misleading the public about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. The suit alleges the company failed to disclose risks like myocarditis, pericarditis, failed pregnancies, and deaths while promoting the vaccine as “safe and effective.”

Pfizer classified the deaths as unrelated to the vaccine and omitted them from a December 2020 New England Journal of Medicine paper that lauded the vaccine’s safety and efficacy. Critics say this omission reflects a troubling pattern of selective reporting.

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The CFR from the Pfizer trial show the vaccines make you 14x more likely to die from COVID

The case fatality rate (CFR) from the Pfizer trial shows you are 10X more likely to die if you get COVID and you are vaccinated.

Pfizer just forgot to point this out.

Same with the CDC and FDA. I’m sure they just forgot.

So I’m going to show you that the CFR is 10X higher for Pfizer and when you combine that with a 40% higher likelihood of being infected, we can now estimate that the COVID vaccine makes you 14X more likely to die from COVID. And that’s not counting your risk of all-cause mortality from the vaccine itself!

The Pfizer Phase 3 study CFR calculation

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine through 6 Months showed for COVID deaths/cases:

Vaccinated: 1/8=.125
Unvaccinated: 2/162=.0123
Note: the deaths are in Table S4 in the Supplementary material

You were actually 10X more likely to die from COVID if you were vaccinated and you got COVID.

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Pfizer Accused of Hiding Deaths in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Including ‘Subject 11141050’ in Kansas, Team Research Alleges

A team of researchers analyzing Pfizer’s clinical trial data has accused the pharmaceutical giant of concealing deaths during its COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Among the allegations is the failure to disclose the death of a Kansas participant who was part of the BNT162b2 vaccine trial. The death reportedly occurred 41 days after the participant received their second vaccine dose.

The accusations stem from a detailed report led by Dr. Jeyanthi Kunadhasan, an anesthetist and perioperative physician, and a member of the DailyClout research team.

The team alleges that Pfizer’s reporting practices during the critical juncture leading to the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the vaccine were flawed, with significant delays in documenting serious adverse events, including deaths.

“The Polack paper disclosed six deaths — two in the BNT162b2 arm, and four in the Placebo arm. In the journal article and the EUA approval documentation[9], the six deaths covered the period of July 27, 2020, through November 14, 2020,” Dr. Kunadhasan wrote in a letter sent to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, who filed a lawsuit against Pfizer.

“This letter will demonstrate that Pfizer-BioNTech possessed records showing that eight deaths, four in the BNT162b2 arm and four in the Placebo arm, should have been disclosed by Pfizer to the FDA.  In addition, the two undisclosed deaths presented a cardiac event signal in the clinical trial’s BNT162b2 recipients. One of the undisclosed deaths in the vaccinated arm of the trial occurred in Kansas,” she added.

Subject 11141050, a 63-year-old Kansas woman, participated in Pfizer’s clinical trial at a research site in Newton, Kansas.

Despite her pre-existing conditions, including hypertension and depression, she met the trial’s inclusion criteria and received her second vaccine dose on September 8, 2020. She passed away on October 19, 2020, with the cause of death determined to be sudden cardiac arrest.

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Revealed: The Hidden Pfizer Report That Shows Heart Conditions in the Vaccinated Getting Worse Over Time

I told you here about Pfizer’s abstract of its Interim Report 5, showing at least 23-40% higher risk of some heart-related conditions in the vaccinated, but that the MHRA, the U.K. medicines regulator, was withholding publication of the full report. As I said at the time : “In summary, if, as I suspect, MHRA is worried by the results in Pfizer’s ‘Interim Report 5’ then no wonder it is sitting on it.”

Well, MHRA is still sitting on the report but I’ve managed to obtain a copy. It looks like I was right – the detailed results in the full report are even more worrying than the Hazard Ratios in the abstract which I reported last time.

To recap: this is a report of a Post Authorisation Safety Study (PASS) of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. National regulators routinely require pharmaceutical manufacturers to conduct PASS studies as a condition of authorisation of most new medicines. The regulators provide data to the manufacturer covering millions of patients registered in national healthcare systems. The manufacturer then conducts analysis, matched for things like age and sex, to determine whether the medicine has increased the risk of specified health conditions.

Let’s dive straight in. Below are some heart-related cumulative incidence graphs from Pfizer’s full ‘Interim Report 5’. You will immediately notice that the incidence for each type of condition is significantly greater in the Covid vaccinated (bad) – but we already knew that from the Hazard Ratios in the abstract. What’s worse is that the curves diverge over time, i.e., the relative incidence between vaccinated and unvaccinated increases over the time period of the data in the report (December 8th 2020 – March 21st 2022). I wonder what happened subsequently.

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