Will US Pharma See Lawsuits Over COVID Vaccine Side Effects?

BioNTech, a German company specializing in mRNA-based vaccines, is facing its first lawsuit in Germany related to alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed in partnership with Pfizer and authorized for emergency use in 158 countries, Reuters reported last week.

But in the U.S., vaccine makers are protected from any such liability until October 2024, thanks to a provision the federal government put forth at the start of the pandemic.

Omar Ochoa, a legal expert in biopharma and related cases, told BioSpace that the move was meant to promote the rapid innovation of vaccines that could change the course of the outbreak.

“You tend to incentivize to assure all the manufacturers and the distributors that would have to be involved in all of these things so they can build the plane as its flying.”

Whether the speed of the COVID-19 vaccine development was due to the PREP Act is impossible to say, but the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for individuals 16 years of age and older was issued on Dec. 11, 2020—less than a year after the virus reached U.S. soil. That’s compared to the typical 5 to 10 years of development time for vaccines to reach the U.S. market, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The new lawsuit comes amidst ongoing efforts to ideate how to deal with future pandemics in the U.S. Whether the legal immunity granted to U.S. vaccine developers this time around comes under question remains to be seen, but Ochoa noted that these companies are largely protected, even in the absence of such special circumstances.

U.S. Implications: The PREP Act

In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary issued the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act pertaining to COVID-19 tests, drugs and vaccines. This declaration aimed to provide liability protections to various entities involved in the development, distribution and administration of COVID-19 countermeasures.

Unless a party engages in willful misconduct, covered entities—including biopharma vaccine manufacturers—are granted immunity from lawsuits and liability under federal and state law for claims related to losses resulting from the administration or use of covered countermeasures, such as COVID-19 vaccines. The PREP Act sunsets on Oct. 1, 2024, but for now, this means that Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax—the three U.S.-based producers of COVID-19 vaccines—are protected by complete immunity, except in the case of a willful violation.

“Willful violations are very hard to prove. You have to show that the company knew about some danger and proceeded anyway,” Ochoa said. “It’s a very hard standard.”

SOURCE: Biospace

Pwnd! 😏

Recent events at Twitter HQ surrounding the ultimately failed attempt to censor What Is A Woman seem to indicate that my hunch was correct. There is a gaggle of leftoids still clinging on to power and wielding it to censor their ideological opposition.

Ella Irwin and Maie Aiyed have both resigned (or been sacked) in the wake of this latest Twitter fiasco. These two anti-white broads were in charge of “brand safety” and moderating content.

It seems they deliberately defied Elon Musk by censoring What Is A Woman, despite previous agreements that the film could be streamed on the website. I wonder who and what else these girl-bosses took upon themselves to censor.

The entire Idaho GOP just voted unanimously to abolish the FBI and ban then from the state

https://www.idahotribune.org/news/idaho-gop-unanimously-passes-resolution-condemning-the-fbi-calls-for-abolition-of-corrupt-government-agency

The Wise of Heart was a warning; not a road map!

"St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas reportedly fired one of its biology professors for teaching his students that sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/college-fired-biology-professor-teaching-sex-determined-chromosomes-x-y?intcmp=tw_fnc

More on the biology instructor fired for teaching there are two sexes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12237057/Veteran-biology-professor-teaching-sex-determined-chromosomes-X-Y-fired.html

"We know now that the 1960s were the greatest age of propaganda in American history, creating the “counterculture” designed to erode traditional values, religion, and national pride with a bogus dream of enlightenment, oriental wisdom, and psychedelics."

https://winterchristian.substack.com/p/my-dinner-with-andre-40-years-later

A reminder to download the app apk directly from the Telegram site to avoid App store version censorship.

https://telegram.org/apps

In 1970, biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted an "utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity" by 1985, influencing mass sterilization efforts in India, China's one-child policy, and other population control measures.

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ECB President Lagarde claims that "climate change affects inflation, and inflation is the beast that all central bankers... want to tame and discipline"

And a cyber attack [Cyber Polygon] with a total grid blackout will be the planned attack which will be blamed on the climage change hoax.

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United Nations Planning Digital ID Linked To Bank Accounts

The United Nations is reportedly planning to launch a global digital ID system linked to individuals’ bank accounts, following plans revealed by the World Economic Forum. The UN proposals have been set out in three new policy briefs, which outline goals including creating “an open, free, secure and human-centered digital future”. The UN system would be harmonised with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and governed by “the apex body”. The supposed aim of the ID system is to improve the delivery of social protection coverage.

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"Political Earthquake" - Germany's AfD Party Posts Historic Win In Thuringia, Scores First District Administrator

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won its first district leadership post by a "convincing margin". Robert Sesselmann picked up 52.8% of the vote in Thuringia’s Sonneberg district to become AfD’s first ever district administrator. The win came despite a cross-party coalition of Greens, Free Democrats, the Left Party, and the Social Democrats endorsing the CDU candidate. As we noted last week, a recent INSA poll showed AfD on a record 20% of the vote.

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Why Are There Still American Troops in Syria?

Call it a forever war.

US troops are fighting ISIS in Syria. But Congress hasn’t approved it, the public hardly knows about it, and it’s not clear under what conditions the US would leave.

Americans tend to only be reminded of the 900 US troops and hundreds of contractors stationed there when they came under attack, often from militants who have Iran’s support, or when there is a mishap — like this week.

In northeast Syria on Sunday, 22 US soldiers from an elite commando unit were injured in a helicopter’s “hard landing” due to a technical issue, according to the Pentagon.

More broadly this spring, US bases have been coming under attack from Iranian-backed groups, with the potential for the US troops there to be drawn into a broader conflict.

The US is in Syria to curb the terrorist group Islamic State or ISIS, in a region that is semi-autonomous and run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish group.

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that troops are needed because “if you completely ignore and turn your back, then you’re setting the conditions for a resurgence.”

But experts say that the US troops there are not building toward a sustainable outcome, and that resisting ISIS has become the pretext for a perpetual US presence.

“It’s a strategy that just makes no sense,” says Robert Ford, who served as US ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014. “The real way forward is not leaving 900 troops to play whack-a-mole in eastern Syria.”

Ford explains that the American mission to secure the outright defeat of ISIS is impossible. The 900 troops in the northeast of Syria and the US garrison at al-Tanf cannot stop a low level of recruitment into ISIS ranks. “So we can bomb some and we can kill some, but they’ll always replace the people that they lose,” he told me. “This is a classic forever war.”

🔗Source: Vox

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Hurricanes expected across the country. Board the windows.

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇷🇺 On the evening of June 23, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sent an urgent telegram to US foreign policy officials around the world prohibiting comment on the Wagner PMC mutiny in Russia. This was reported by the portal Axios.

Thus, the Secretary of State allegedly wanted to get a guarantee that not a single American diplomat, by his statements, would create the impression of US involvement in what happened in Russia, the newspaper notes, citing sources.

According to another State Department interlocutor, Blinken wanted US officials to wait for a more detailed picture of what is happening before commenting on it.