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Vaccine makers take null to lose by marketing their experimental COVID-19 shots, fifty-fifty if they cause serious injury and death, every bit they enjoy total indemnity against injuries occurring from COVID-19 vaccines or any other pandemic vaccine nether the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Deed, passed in the U.S. in 2005.

The total extent of their COVID-19 vaccine indemnification agreements with countries, withal, is a closely guarded secret, 1 that has remained highly confidential — until at present. A leaked document broken down by Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer's international COVID-nineteen vaccine agreements. He wrote:

"These agreements are confidential, simply luckily one country did not protect the contract document well enough, then I managed to become a agree of a copy. As you are about to see, at that place is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts."

An ironclad agreement, all on Pfizer's terms

The declared indemnification agreement, reportedly between Pfizer and Albania, was originally posted in snippets on Twitter, only Twitter now has them marked as "unavailable." Copies of the tweets are available on Treadreader, still.

The Albania agreement appears very similar to another contract, published online, betwixt Pfizer and the Dominican Commonwealth. It covers non just COVID-19 vaccines, merely whatsoever production that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that purchase Pfizer's COVID-19 shot must admit that "Pfizer's efforts to develop and industry the Production" are "subject area 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 agreement stands, and the country must follow through with their order. Ivermectin , for instance, is non only rubber, cheap and widely available simply has been found to reduce COVID-19 mort ality by 81% . Yet, it continues to be ignored in favor of more 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 non allow them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will be found to treat COVID19 the contract cannot be voided."

Even if Pfizer fails to deliver vaccine doses inside their estimated commitment period, the purchaser may not cancel the order. Further, Pfizer tin can brand adjustments to the number of contracted doses and their delivery schedule, "based on principles to be adamant by Pfizer," and the land buying the vaccines must "agree to any revision."

It doesn't thing 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 subject to or liable for whatsoever belatedly delivery penalties." Every bit you might suspect, the contract also "forbids returns under whatsoever circumstances."

The big hugger-mugger: Pfizer charged U.S. More Other Countries

While COVID-xix vaccines are "free" to receive in the U.Due 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 $14.70 per shot. While charging unlike prices to dissimilar purchases is common in the drug industry, it'south often frowned upon.

In the instance of the price disparity betwixt the U.S. and the Eu, Pfizer is said to have given a price break to the European union considering it financially supported the development of their COVID-19 vaccine. Nonetheless, Ehden noted, "U.S. taxpayers got screwed by Pfizer, probably too Israel." Also, Pfizer makes a point to note that countries take no correct to withhold payment to the visitor for any reason.

Obviously, this includes in the case of receiving damaged appurtenances. Purchasers of Pfizer's COVID-xix vaccines are not entitled to refuse them "based on service complaints," unless they do not conform to specifications or the FDA'southward Current Skillful Manufacturing Practice regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is to a higher place any local constabulary of the state."

While the purchaser has almost no way of canceling the contract, Pfizer can terminate the agreement in the effect of a "cloth breach" of any term in their contract.

Safety and efficacy 'not currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine must also admit two facts that take largely been brushed under the rug: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. According to section 5.5 of the contract:

"Purchaser acknowledges that the Vaccine and materials related to the Vaccine, and their components and elective materials are being quickly developed due to the emergency circumstances of the COVID-xix 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 exist adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known."

Indemnification by the purchaser is also explicitly required by the contract, which states, nether department eight.1:

"Purchaser hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Pfizer, BioNTech, each of their Affiliates, contractors, sub-contractors, licensors, licensees, sub-licensees, distributors, contract manufacturers, services providers, clinical trial researchers, third parties to whom Pfizer or BioNTech or whatsoever of their respective Affiliates may direct or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the inquiry ...
"from and against any 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 keep the terms of the contract confidential for a flow of ten years.

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

"shall promptly assume conduct and control of the defence of such Indemnified Claims on behalf of the Indemnitee with counsel acceptable to Indemnitee(due south), 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 past the Indemnitee(due south) in connection with any Indemnified Claim shall be reimbursed on a quarterly ground past Purchaser.'"

Buried in the March 17, 2022, Federal Annals — the daily periodical of the U.S. authorities — in a document 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 court — similar to the federal vaccine court that already exists.

In the U.South., vaccine makers already enjoy full indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine under the PREP Human activity. 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 merits with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which is funded by U.Southward. taxpayers via Congressional cribbing to the Department of Health 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 past Dr. Meryl Nass, the maximum payout you can receive — even in cases of permanent inability or decease — is $250,000 per person; however, you'd have to exhaust your individual insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.

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

Pfizer accused of abuse of power

As is apparent in Pfizer's confidential contract with Republic of albania, the drug behemothic wants governments to guarantee the company will be compensated for whatsoever expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against it. Pfizer has also demanded that countries put upwardly sovereign assets , including depository financial institution reserves, military bases and diplomatic mission buildings, as collateral for expected vaccine injury lawsuits resulting from its COVID-19 inoculation.

New Delhi-based Globe Is One News (WION) reported in February 2022 that Brazil rejected Pfizer'south demands, calling them "abusive." The demands included that Brazil:

  1. "Waives sovereignty of its assets away in favor of Pfizer."
  2. Non utilise 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 as well referred to concerns by legal experts, who also suggested Pfizer's demands were an abuse of ability. Mark Eccleston-Turner, a lecturer in global health law at Keele University in England, told STAT:

"[Pfizer] is trying to eke out as much turn a profit and minimize its gamble at every juncture with this vaccine evolution and then this vaccine rollout. Now, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. Then there's very minimal take chances for the manufacturer involved in that location."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse effects rise

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative secret vaccine deals across the globe. In June 2022, they signed one of their biggest contracts to date — with the Philippine regime for 40 million doses .

Meanwhile, COVID-19 "breakthrough cases," which used to be chosen vaccine failures, are on the rise. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), equally of July 19, 5,914 people who had been fully vaccinated for COVID-nineteen were hospitalized or died from COVID-19.

In the U.Thou., as of July fifteen, 87.5% of the adult population had received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 67.1% had received two. Nevertheless, symptomatic cases amongst partially and fully vaccinated are on the rise , with an average of 15,537 new infections a 24-hour interval being detected, a 40% increase from the week earlier.

In a July nineteen report from the CDC, the agency also reported that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received 12,313 reports of expiry amidst people who received a COVID-19 vaccine — more than doubling from the 6,079 reports of death from the week earlier.

Soon later on the written report, all the same, they reverted the number to the six,079 from the week before, indicating past default that no deaths from the vaccine had occurred that week, raising serious questions about transparency and vaccine safety.

Many other agin events are likewise actualization, 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 ). As y'all can see in the confidential indemnification agreements, however, fifty-fifty if the vaccine turns out to exist a dismal failure — and a risk to short- and long-term wellness — countries take no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

One question that nosotros should all be asking is this: If the COVID-19 vaccines are, in fact, as safety and constructive equally the manufacturers claim, why do they require this level of indemnification?

The views and opinions expressed in this commodity are those of the authors and do non necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.