“Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight. Paul D Thacker reports” https://www.doximity.com/newsfeed/ed907e95-12e1-48cd-bed0-10774520e526/public.
Here’s the problem. In none of the complaints were there any real data to say the vaccine was not efficacious. All this is about breaking standard protocols (they did in a clinical trial I participated in). Adverse reactions can be reported by anyone at anytime to FDA (not just the company) regardless if they are actually caused by the vaccine. We have now undergone the largest clinical trial in history with over 196 million fully vaccinated (59.4% of the population) in US and all adverse reactions are being reported and do not exceed what is seen with many established vaccines. Doses given 7.81 billion, fully vaccinated 3.33 billion, 42.7% fully vaccinated worldwide (https://www.google.com/search?q=number+vaccinated+worldwide&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=naqnYYvHD-SyqtsP5uqXoA8).
This kind of slipshod work by the largest drug company in the world only feeds the antivax fires and demonstrates at least in my eyes the problem with “free market” development of and control of data for vaccines in general. This can only hurt ending the pandemic where being unvaccinated is largely responsible for deaths, severe illness, overburdening the medical system and wrecking it, generating more resistant mutants, and periodicallly shutting down businesses and schools with superspreader events. Not to mention feeding insane antivax and anti-mask politics.
Global Biosurveillance 