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Vaccine makers have nada to lose by marketing their experimental COVID-19 shots, fifty-fifty if they crusade serious injury and decease, equally they savour full indemnity confronting injuries occurring from COVID-xix vaccines or any other pandemic vaccine nether the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, passed in the U.S. in 2005.

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

"These agreements are confidential, only luckily i state did not protect the contract document well enough, so I managed to get a hold of a re-create. Equally yous are virtually to run into, there is a proficient 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 Republic of albania, was originally posted in snippets on Twitter, but Twitter now has them marked as "unavailable." Copies of the tweets are available on Treadreader, nevertheless.

The Albania agreement appears very similar to another contract, published online, betwixt Pfizer and the Dominican Democracy. It covers not merely COVID-19 vaccines, but any production that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that purchase Pfizer's 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 handling comes out that tin prevent, care for or cure COVID-19, the agreement stands, and the country must follow through with their guild. Ivermectin , for instance, is not only safe, cheap and widely available just has been found to reduce COVID-19 mort ality by 81% . Yet, it continues to be ignored in favor of more expensive, and less constructive, treatments and mass experimental vaccination. Ehden wrote:

"If you were wondering why #Ivermectin was suppressed, well, it is because the agreement that countries had with Pfizer does not let them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will exist found to care for COVID19 the contract cannot be voided."

Even if Pfizer fails to deliver vaccine doses within their estimated commitment flow, the purchaser may non cancel the order. Further, Pfizer can brand adjustments to the number of contracted doses and their delivery schedule, "based on principles to be adamant by Pfizer," and the country buying the vaccines must "concord to any revision."

It doesn't affair if the vaccines are delivered severely belatedly, even at a indicate when they're no longer needed, equally it's fabricated clear that

"Nether no circumstances will Pfizer be subject field to or liable for any late delivery penalties." As you might suspect, the contract as well "forbids returns under whatsoever circumstances."

The big underground: Pfizer charged U.S. More than Than Other Countries

While COVID-19 vaccines are "free" to receive in the U.Due south., they're beingness paid for by taxpayer dollars at a rate of $xix.5011 per dose. Albania, the leaked contract revealed, paid $12 per dose, while the EU paid $14.lxx per shot. While charging different prices to different purchases is mutual in the drug industry, information technology'south often frowned upon.

In the case of the price disparity between the U.S. and the European union, Pfizer is said to have given a price break to the EU considering information technology financially supported the development of their COVID-19 vaccine. Still, Ehden noted, "U.S. taxpayers got screwed past Pfizer, probably also Israel." Too, Pfizer makes a signal to note that countries have no right to withhold payment to the company for any reason.

Obviously, this includes in the example of receiving damaged appurtenances. Purchasers of Pfizer'southward COVID-nineteen vaccines are non entitled to pass up them "based on service complaints," unless they do non arrange to specifications or the FDA's Current Good Manufacturing Exercise regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is above any local constabulary of the land."

While the purchaser has most no manner of canceling the contract, Pfizer can stop the agreement in the event of a "material alienation" of any term in their contract.

Rubber and efficacy 'non currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer's COVID-nineteen vaccine must too admit two facts that take largely been brushed nether the rug: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. According to section 5.five of the contract:

"Purchaser acknowledges that the Vaccine and materials related to the Vaccine, and their components and constituent materials are being rapidly developed due to the emergency circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and volition continue to exist studied afterward provision of the Vaccine to Purchaser nether this Understanding.

"Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects 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 section 8.1:

"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 corresponding Affiliates may straight or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the research ...
"from and against any and all suits, claims, actions, 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 on the terms of the contract confidential for a menstruation of 10 years.

Not but does Pfizer accept total indemnification, simply there'southward also a department in the contract titled, "Assumption of Defense by Purchaser," which states that in the event Pfizer suffers losses for which it is seeking indemnification, the purchaser

"shall promptly presume conduct and control of the defense of such Indemnified Claims on behalf of the Indemnitee with counsel acceptable to Indemnitee(s), whether or non the Indemnified Merits 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(s) in connection with any Indemnified Claim shall be reimbursed on a quarterly footing by Purchaser.'"

Buried in the March 17, 2020, Federal Register — the daily journal of the U.S. authorities — in a document titled, "Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19," is linguistic communication that establishes a new COVID-19 vaccine court — similar to the federal vaccine court that already exists.

In the U.S., vaccine makers already savor full indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine nether the PREP Deed. If you're injured by a COVID vaccine (or a select grouping of other vaccines designated under the human action), y'all'd have to file a compensation merits with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which is funded past U.Due south. taxpayers via Congressional appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

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

The CICP also has a i-twelvemonth statute of limitations, so you have to act apace, which is also difficult since it's unknown if long-term furnishings could occur more than a year afterward.

Pfizer defendant of corruption of power

Every bit is apparent in Pfizer's confidential contract with Albania, the drug giant wants governments to guarantee the company will be compensated for any expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against information technology. Pfizer has also demanded that countries put up sovereign assets , including banking concern reserves, armed services bases and embassy buildings, every bit collateral for expected vaccine injury lawsuits resulting from its COVID-19 inoculation.

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

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

STAT News also referred to concerns by legal experts, who too suggested Pfizer's demands were an abuse of power. Marker Eccleston-Turner, a lecturer in global health law 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 then this vaccine rollout. Now, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So there's very minimal chance for the manufacturer involved there."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse effects rising

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative cloak-and-dagger vaccine deals across the world. In June 2021, they signed one of their biggest contracts to date — with the Philippine government for forty million doses .

Meanwhile, COVID-19 "quantum cases," which used to be called vaccine failures, are on the rise. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Command and Prevention (CDC), as of July 19, v,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.five% of the adult population had received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 67.1% had received two. Nonetheless, symptomatic cases among partially and fully vaccinated are on the ascent , with an average of 15,537 new infections a mean solar day being detected, a 40% increment from the calendar week before.

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

Soon later on the report, however, they reverted the number to the six,079 from the week before, indicating by default that no deaths from the vaccine had occurred that week, raising serious questions most transparency and vaccine prophylactic.

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 ( centre inflammation ). As you can run across in the confidential indemnification agreements, however, even if the vaccine turns out to be a dismal failure — and a risk to short- and long-term wellness — countries have no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

One question that we should all be request is this: If the COVID-19 vaccines are, in fact, as rubber and effective as the manufacturers claim, why practice they require 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's Health Defense.