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

The full extent of their COVID-19 vaccine indemnification agreements with countries, however, is a closely guarded cloak-and-dagger, one that has remained highly confidential — until at present. A leaked certificate broken downwards past Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer's international COVID-19 vaccine agreements. He wrote:

"These agreements are confidential, but luckily one country did not protect the contract certificate well enough, so I managed to get a agree of a copy. As you lot are almost to come across, there is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts."

An ironclad agreement, all on Pfizer'southward terms

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

The Albania agreement appears very similar to some other contract, published online, between Pfizer and the Dominican Republic. It covers not only COVID-19 vaccines, but any product that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that buy Pfizer's COVID-19 shot must acknowledge that "Pfizer's efforts to develop and manufacture the Product" are "discipline to significant risks and uncertainties."

And in the event that a drug or other treatment comes out that can prevent, treat or cure COVID-19, the understanding stands, and the land must follow through with their order. Ivermectin , for instance, is non only safe, inexpensive and widely bachelor but has been constitute to reduce COVID-nineteen mort ality by 81% . Yet, information technology continues to be ignored in favor of more than expensive, and less effective, treatments and mass experimental vaccination. Ehden wrote:

"If you lot were wondering why #Ivermectin was suppressed, well, it is because the agreement 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 menstruum, the purchaser may not cancel the order. 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 land buying the vaccines must "concur to whatever revision."

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

"Under no circumstances will Pfizer be discipline to or liable for any late commitment penalties." As y'all might suspect, the contract also "forbids returns nether any circumstances."

The large undercover: Pfizer charged U.Due south. More Than Other Countries

While COVID-19 vaccines are "gratuitous" to receive in the U.South., they're being paid for by taxpayer dollars at a rate of $19.5011 per dose. Albania, the leaked contract revealed, paid $12 per dose, while the EU paid $fourteen.70 per shot. While charging dissimilar prices to unlike purchases is mutual in the drug industry, it's oft frowned upon.

In the case of the toll disparity between the U.S. and the Eu, Pfizer is said to have given a cost break to the European union because information technology financially supported the development of their COVID-xix vaccine. Still, Ehden noted, "U.S. taxpayers got screwed by Pfizer, probably likewise Israel." Too, Pfizer makes a indicate to notation that countries have no right to withhold payment to the visitor for any reason.

Manifestly, this includes in the case of receiving damaged appurtenances. Purchasers of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines are not entitled to reject them "based on service complaints," unless they do non arrange to specifications or the FDA'due south Current Adept Manufacturing Practice regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is in a higher place any local law of the land."

While the purchaser has nearly no way of canceling the contract, Pfizer can terminate the understanding in the result of a "material breach" of any term in their contract.

Safety and efficacy 'not currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer's COVID-nineteen vaccine must likewise acknowledge two facts that have largely been brushed under the rug: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. Co-ordinate to department 5.5 of the contract:

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

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

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

"Purchaser hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and agree 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 whatsoever of their respective Affiliates may straight or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the research ...
"from and against whatever and all suits, claims, deportment, demands, losses, damages, 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 along the terms of the contract confidential for a catamenia of 10 years.

Non only does Pfizer take total indemnification, but there'southward also a section in the contract titled, "Supposition of Defense force by Purchaser," which states that in the outcome Pfizer suffers losses for which it is seeking indemnification, the purchaser

"shall promptly assume conduct and control of the defence force of such Indemnified Claims on behalf of the Indemnitee with counsel acceptable to Indemnitee(south), whether or not the Indemnified Claim is rightfully brought."

Ehden notes:

"Pfizer is making certain the country will pay for everything: 'Costs and expenses, including ... fees and disbursements of counsel, incurred by the Indemnitee(due south) in connexion with any Indemnified Claim shall exist reimbursed on a quarterly ground by Purchaser.'"

Cached in the March 17, 2020, Federal Annals — the daily journal of the U.S. regime — in a document titled, "Annunciation Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-xix," is language that establishes a new COVID-19 vaccine court — similar to the federal vaccine court that already exists.

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

While similar to the National Vaccine Injury Bounty Program (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 tin can receive — even in cases of permanent disability or expiry — is $250,000 per person; all the same, yous'd take to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.

The CICP also has a one-year statute of limitations, so you lot have to act quickly, which is too difficult since it'southward unknown if long-term effects could occur more than a year later.

Pfizer defendant of abuse of power

Equally is apparent in Pfizer'south confidential contract with Albania, the drug giant wants governments to guarantee the company volition be compensated for whatever expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against information technology. Pfizer has likewise demanded that countries put up sovereign assets , including banking company reserves, military bases and embassy buildings, every bit collateral for expected vaccine injury lawsuits resulting from its COVID-19 inoculation.

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

  1. "Waives sovereignty of its assets away in favor of Pfizer."
  2. Not apply its domestic laws to the company.
  3. Not penalize Pfizer for vaccine delivery delays.
  4. Exempt Pfizer from all civil liability for side furnishings.

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

"[Pfizer] is trying to eke out as much profit and minimize its risk at every juncture with this vaccine development and so this vaccine rollout. At present, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So in that location'due south very minimal hazard for the manufacturer involved there."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse furnishings rise

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative secret vaccine deals across the globe. In June 2021, they signed 1 of their biggest contracts to appointment — with the Philippine government for xl million doses .

Meanwhile, COVID-19 "breakthrough cases," which used to exist called vaccine failures, are on the ascension. According to the U.S. Centers for Affliction Control and Prevention (CDC), as of July nineteen, five,914 people who had been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 were hospitalized or died from COVID-19.

In the U.K., as of July 15, 87.5% of the adult population had received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 67.1% had received two. However, symptomatic cases among partially and fully vaccinated are on the rise , with an average of 15,537 new infections a twenty-four hour period beingness detected, a 40% increment from the week before.

In a July 19 report from the CDC, the agency besides reported that the Vaccine Agin Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received 12,313 reports of expiry among people who received a COVID-nineteen vaccine — more than doubling from the vi,079 reports of death from the calendar week before.

Soon subsequently the report, notwithstanding, they reverted the number to the vi,079 from the calendar week before, indicating by default that no deaths from the vaccine had occurred that week, raising serious questions almost transparency and vaccine safety.

Many other adverse events are too appearing, ranging in risks from the biologically active SARS-CoV-2 fasten protein used in the vaccine to blood clots, reproductive toxicity and myocarditis ( center inflammation ). As you can see in the confidential indemnification agreements, however, even if the vaccine turns out to exist a dismal failure — and a take chances to brusk- and long-term health — countries have no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

One question that we should all be asking is this: If the COVID-xix vaccines are, in fact, equally safe and constructive every bit the manufacturers claim, why do they require this level of indemnification?

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.