Breaking! Kansas Sues Pfizer For ‘Misleading’ Public About ‘Adverse Effects’ of COVID-19 Vaccine
The State of Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Pfizer for violations related to its COVID-19 injection product, claiming the company marketed the shot as “safe” despite knowing the so-called vaccine was linked to “serious adverse events.”
The 179-page lawsuit filed Monday by Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach in the District Court of Thomas County alleges “Pfizer misled the public that it had a ‘safe and effective’ COVID-19 vaccine.”
“Pfizer made multiple misleading statements to deceive the public about its vaccine at a time when Americans needed the truth,” Kobach told reporters Monday, adding Pfizer’s “misrepresentations” resulted in “record company revenue” of approximately $75 billion in just two years.
The lawsuit alleges, “Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was safe even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies, and deaths. Pfizer concealed this critical safety information from the public.”
“Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was effective even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine waned over time and did not protect against COVID-19 variants. Pfizer concealed this critical effectiveness information from the public,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also alleges that the pharmaceutical giant’s “actions and statements relating to its COVID-19 vaccine” violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, “regardless of whether any individual consumer ultimately received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.”
“Pfizer must be held accountable for falsely representing the benefits of its COVID-19 vaccine while concealing and suppressing the truth about its vaccine’s safety risks, waning effectiveness, and inability to prevent transmission,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit goes on to point out that “millions of Kansans heard Pfizer’s misrepresentations about its COVID-19 vaccine.”
“For example, Pfizer administered 3,355,518 Pfizer vaccine doses in Kansas as of February 7, 2024. This accounted for more than 60% of all vaccine doses in Kansas,” the filing states, citing the state’s Department of Health data.
Additionally, the lawsuit accuses Pfizer of working to “conceal critical data” using various methods related to the “safety and effectiveness” of the mRNA vaccine.
“Because Pfizer unblinded the original control group and allowed them to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer, government regulators, and independent scientists cannot fully compare the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine against unvaccinated individuals,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Pfizer’s extensive and aggressive efforts to keep its COVID-19 vaccine information hidden conflict with its public transparency pledges and raise serious questions about what Pfizer is hiding and why it is hiding it,”it says.
These actions by Pfizer suggest it had knowledge of “safety issues” with the COVID-19 vaccine.
“When Pfizer announced that the FDA had authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, Pfizer did not disclose that its trial included only healthy individuals and excluded unhealthy individuals,” the suit claims.
“Pfizer made representations about its COVID-19 vaccine’s safety knowingly or with reason to know that it did not possess a reasonable basis to represent that it was safe for individuals who had been diagnosed with COVID-19, who were immunocompromised, or who were pregnant or breastfeeding,” it continued, adding Pfizer “maintained its own adverse events database” separate from the VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System] database.
“Upon information and belief, Pfizer’s adverse events database contained more adverse event data than VAERS because it included both information in VAERS and information not in VAERS,” the lawsuit states.
Pfizer responded to the state’s lawsuit in a statement on Monday defending its mRNA vaccine and insisting its product saved lives.
“The representations made by Pfizer about its COVID-19 vaccine have been accurate and science-based,” a Pfizer spokesperson wrote. “The Company believes that the state’s case has no merit and will respond to the suit in due course.”
Since its initial authorization by FDA in December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been administered to more than 1.5 billion people, demonstrated a favorable safety profile in all age groups, and helped protect against severe COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalization and death.
This comes days after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the COVID-19 vaccines don’t meet the legal definition of a vaccinesince actual vaccines demonstrate proven effectiveness in preventing disease spread by stimulating the immune system to produce immunity.
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