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Vaccine makers accept nothing to lose past marketing their experimental COVID-19 shots, even if they cause serious injury and death, as they bask full indemnity against injuries occurring from COVID-19 vaccines or any other pandemic vaccine under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Human activity, passed in the U.South. in 2005.

The full extent of their COVID-19 vaccine indemnification agreements with countries, however, is a closely guarded secret, one that has remained highly confidential — until now. A leaked document cleaved downward by Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer's international COVID-19 vaccine agreements. He wrote:

"These agreements are confidential, but luckily 1 country did not protect the contract document well enough, then I managed to become a hold of a copy. Equally you are about to run into, in that location is a skillful reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts."

An ironclad agreement, all on Pfizer's terms

The alleged indemnification agreement, reportedly betwixt Pfizer and Albania, was originally posted in snippets on Twitter, but Twitter now has them marked equally "unavailable." Copies of the tweets are available on Treadreader, however.

The Albania agreement appears very similar to some other contract, published online, between Pfizer and the Dominican Republic. It covers non only COVID-19 vaccines, only whatever product that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that buy Pfizer'south COVID-nineteen shot must acknowledge that "Pfizer'southward efforts to develop and manufacture the Product" are "subject to significant risks and uncertainties."

And in the event that a drug or other treatment comes out that can forbid, treat or cure COVID-19, the agreement stands, and the country must follow through with their order. Ivermectin , for example, is not only safe, inexpensive and widely available but has been institute to reduce COVID-19 mort ality by 81% . Nonetheless, it continues to be ignored in favor of more expensive, and less effective, treatments and mass experimental vaccination. Ehden wrote:

"If y'all were wondering why #Ivermectin was suppressed, well, it is because the understanding that countries had with Pfizer does not allow them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will be found to treat COVID19 the contract cannot be voided."

Fifty-fifty if Pfizer fails to evangelize vaccine doses within their estimated delivery menses, the purchaser may non abolish the lodge. Farther, Pfizer can make adjustments to the number of contracted doses and their delivery schedule, "based on principles to be determined by Pfizer," and the country ownership the vaccines must "agree to whatever revision."

It doesn't matter if the vaccines are delivered severely late, even at a point when they're no longer needed, as information technology's made articulate that

"Under no circumstances will Pfizer be bailiwick to or liable for whatsoever tardily delivery penalties." Every bit you might suspect, the contract too "forbids returns under any circumstances."

The large secret: Pfizer charged U.S. More Than Other Countries

While COVID-xix vaccines are "gratis" to receive in the U.Due south., they're being paid for past taxpayer dollars at a rate of $19.5011 per dose. Republic of albania, the leaked contract revealed, paid $12 per dose, while the European union paid $14.lxx per shot. While charging different prices to different purchases is common in the drug industry, it's oftentimes frowned upon.

In the instance of the cost disparity betwixt the U.S. and the EU, Pfizer is said to accept given a price break to the European union because it financially supported the evolution of their COVID-19 vaccine. Notwithstanding, Ehden noted, "U.S. taxpayers got screwed by Pfizer, probably also Israel." Also, Pfizer makes a point to note that countries have no right to withhold payment to the company for whatsoever reason.

Apparently, this includes in the case of receiving damaged goods. Purchasers of Pfizer'southward COVID-19 vaccines are not entitled to reject them "based on service complaints," unless they do not accommodate to specifications or the FDA'south Current Skillful Manufacturing Practice regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is to a higher place whatever local constabulary of the country."

While the purchaser has virtually no style of canceling the contract, Pfizer can finish the understanding in the upshot of a "material breach" of any term in their contract.

Safety and efficacy 'not currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer'southward COVID-nineteen vaccine must too acknowledge two facts that have largely been brushed nether the carpeting: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. According to section v.5 of the contract:

"Purchaser acknowledges that the Vaccine and materials related to the Vaccine, and their components and elective materials are being speedily developed due to the emergency circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and will keep to be studied after provision of the Vaccine to Purchaser under this Understanding.

"Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be agin effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known."

Indemnification by the purchaser is also explicitly required by the contract, which states, under section 8.1:

"Purchaser hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and concord harmless Pfizer, BioNTech, each of their Affiliates, contractors, sub-contractors, licensors, licensees, sub-licensees, distributors, contract manufacturers, services providers, clinical trial researchers, 3rd parties to whom Pfizer or BioNTech or any of their respective Affiliates may straight or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the research ...
"from and against whatever and all suits, claims, actions, demands, losses, amercement, liabilities, settlements, penalties, fines, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and other expenses of an investigation or litigation ... arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the Vaccine ..."

Meanwhile, the purchaser must also go on the terms of the contract confidential for a menses of 10 years.

Not only does Pfizer have total indemnification, merely there's also a section in the contract titled, "Supposition of Defense by Purchaser," which states that in the event Pfizer suffers losses for which it is seeking indemnification, the purchaser

"shall promptly assume comport and command of the defence of such Indemnified Claims on behalf of the Indemnitee with counsel adequate to Indemnitee(s), whether or not the Indemnified Claim is rightfully brought."

Ehden notes:

"Pfizer is making sure the country will pay for everything: 'Costs and expenses, including ... fees and disbursements of counsel, incurred by the Indemnitee(s) in connection with any Indemnified Claim shall exist reimbursed on a quarterly footing past Purchaser.'"

Buried in the March 17, 2020, Federal Annals — the daily journal of the U.S. government — in a certificate titled, "Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Deed for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-xix," is language that establishes a new COVID-19 vaccine courtroom — similar to the federal vaccine courtroom that already exists.

In the U.Southward., vaccine makers already relish full indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine nether the PREP Act. If you're injured past a COVID vaccine (or a select group of other vaccines designated under the act), you'd have to file a compensation claim with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which is funded by U.S. taxpayers via Congressional appropriation to the Department of Wellness and Human Services (DHHS).

While similar to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Programme (NVICP), which applies to nonpandemic vaccines, the CICP is even less generous when it comes to compensation. As reported by Dr. Meryl Nass, the maximum payout you can receive — even in cases of permanent inability or death — is $250,000 per person; however, you'd have to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.

The CICP also has a 1-year statute of limitations, so yous have to human action quickly, which is besides difficult since it's unknown if long-term furnishings could occur more than a year afterward.

Pfizer accused of abuse of power

Equally is apparent in Pfizer's confidential contract with Albania, the drug behemothic wants governments to guarantee the company will be compensated for any expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against it. Pfizer has too demanded that countries put up sovereign assets , including bank reserves, military bases and embassy buildings, equally collateral for expected vaccine injury lawsuits resulting from its COVID-19 inoculation.

New Delhi-based Globe Is 1 News (WION) reported in Feb 2021 that Brazil rejected Pfizer'southward demands, calling them "abusive." The demands included that Brazil:

  1. "Waives sovereignty of its avails abroad in favor of Pfizer."
  2. Non use its domestic laws to the company.
  3. Not penalize Pfizer for vaccine commitment delays.
  4. Exempt Pfizer from all civil liability for side effects.

STAT News likewise referred to concerns by legal experts, who also suggested Pfizer'southward demands were an abuse of power. Mark Eccleston-Turner, a lecturer in global wellness law at Keele Academy in England, told STAT:

"[Pfizer] is trying to eke out as much profit and minimize its run a risk at every juncture with this vaccine development then this vaccine rollout. Now, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So there's very minimal risk for the manufacturer involved there."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse effects ascension

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative secret vaccine deals across the globe. In June 2021, they signed one of their biggest contracts to date — with the Philippine government for forty meg doses .

Meanwhile, COVID-xix "breakthrough cases," which used to be chosen vaccine failures, are on the rise. Co-ordinate to the U.S. Centers for Disease Command and Prevention (CDC), every bit of July 19, five,914 people who had been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 were hospitalized or died from COVID-nineteen.

In the U.K., as of July 15, 87.5% of the adult population had received one dose of COVID-nineteen vaccine and 67.1% had received two. However, symptomatic cases amid partially and fully vaccinated are on the rise , with an average of fifteen,537 new infections a day being detected, a xl% increase from the week earlier.

In a July 19 report from the CDC, the bureau also reported that the Vaccine Adverse Outcome Reporting System (VAERS) had received 12,313 reports of expiry among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine — more doubling from the 6,079 reports of death from the calendar week before.

Shortly after the report, yet, they reverted the number to the half-dozen,079 from the week earlier, indicating by default that no deaths from the vaccine had occurred that week, raising serious questions well-nigh transparency and vaccine safety.

Many other adverse events are also appearing, ranging in risks from the biologically active SARS-CoV-2 spike protein used in the vaccine to blood clots, reproductive toxicity and myocarditis ( heart inflammation ). Every bit you tin see in the confidential indemnification agreements, even so, even if the vaccine turns out to be a dismal failure — and a risk to short- and long-term health — countries have no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

One question that nosotros should all be asking is this: If the COVID-xix vaccines are, in fact, as rubber and effective every bit the manufacturers claim, why exercise they crave this level of indemnification?

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reverberate the views of Children'south Health Defence force.