Breaking news on the Flu Manchu Phonies Front:
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced Thursday that his office is suing Pfizer, claiming that the company violated state law when it allegedly lied about the efficacy of its Covid-19 vaccine.
Paxton’s office claims the pharmaceutical giant violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by engaging in “false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims” about the vaccine.
The AG’s office said Pfizer’s claim that its vaccine is 95 percent effective against Covid-19 infection is “highly misleading.”
“Pfizer created the false impression that its vaccine provided a substantially greater amount of protection against COVID-19 infection than what it afforded in reality,” Paxton’s office said, accusing the company of launching a “continuous and widespread campaign” to mislead the public about the efficacy of its vaccine.
The “deceptive conduct was reinforced and extended by Pfizer’s efforts to censor persons who sought to disseminate truthful information that would undermine its ongoing deception,” the statement adds.
Paxton claimed Pfizer relied on a “relative risk reduction” assessment to arrive at the 95 percent efficacy figure. The FDA says such assessments leave patients “unduly influenced” and vulnerable to “suboptimal decisions.”
“We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies,” Paxton said in a statement. “The facts are clear. Pfizer did not tell the truth about their COVID-19 vaccines. Whereas the Biden Administration weaponized the pandemic to force illegal public health decrees on the public and enrich pharmaceutical companies, I will use every tool I have to protect our citizens who were misled and harmed by Pfizer’s actions.”
The lawsuit comes nearly eight months after Paxton first announced plans to investigate Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson for their potentially misleading claims about the efficacy of each of their Covid shots and whether or not they “engaged in gain-of-function research.”
Absent from the press release is whether Pfizer engaged in false, deceptive and misleading acts and practices in supressing information about adverse side effects from their vaccine. I hope the Attorney General’s office is pursuing that line of inquiry as well.
Ten days ago, the AG office announced it was suing Pfizer and Tri Pharma over “providing adulterated pharmaceutical drugs to Texas children in violation of the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act.”
If the Powers That Be expected their attempted impeachment to throw a scare into Paxton, they were obviously mistaken. Was Pfizer one of those shadowy Powers? It wouldn’t surprise me. I note that Texas House Speaker (and Paxton nemesis) Dade Phalen received campaign contributions from Pfizer in the 2022 and 2014 election cycles, which is…interesting, but hardly an iron-clad case.
More research is needed…
Tags: coronavirus, Crime, Dade Phelan, fraud, Ken Paxton, Lawsuit, Medicaid, Pfizer, Republicans, Texas
It will be just fascinating to watch the “conventional wisdom” about COVID evolve over the next few years, as everyone goes out of their way to distance themselves from the policies and makes excuses for what they did.
The period was a collective madness, egged on by the media and the Democrats. I don’t doubt but that by the time it’s all said and done, the whole “vaccine mandate” idea and policy enforcement will become a Republican “thing”, probably with Trump’s Operation Warp Speed rolled in as the umbrella to “prove” it all…
A Trump/Paxton ticket would have the same political effect on Washington, D.C. that sunlight has on vampires. As a bonus, the Presidential debates would be epic.
While Paxton would make a great VP, he doesn’t get Trump anything he doesn’t already have (he’s already going to win Texas and movement conservatives). Usually your Veep pick should nail down some state or constituency you don’t already have nailed down. Tim Scott or Glenn Youngkin are more likely to be picked for that reason.