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Vaccine makers have nix to lose past marketing their experimental COVID-19 shots, even if they cause serious injury and death, as they enjoy full indemnity against injuries occurring from COVID-19 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, still, is a closely guarded secret, 1 that has remained highly confidential — until now. A leaked document broken downward by Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer's international COVID-19 vaccine agreements. He wrote:

"These agreements are confidential, but luckily i country did non protect the contract certificate well enough, so I managed to become a hold of a copy. As you are about to see, there is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts."

An ironclad understanding, all on Pfizer's terms

The declared indemnification agreement, reportedly betwixt Pfizer and Albania, was originally posted in snippets on Twitter, but Twitter now has them marked every bit "unavailable." Copies of the tweets are available on Treadreader, however.

The Albania agreement appears very similar to another contract, published online, betwixt Pfizer and the Dominican Democracy. It covers not simply COVID-xix vaccines, only any product that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that buy Pfizer's COVID-xix shot must acknowledge that "Pfizer'southward efforts to develop and industry the Product" are "subject to significant risks and uncertainties."

And in the upshot that a drug or other treatment comes out that can forestall, treat or cure COVID-19, the agreement stands, and the country must follow through with their order. Ivermectin , for example, is not only safe, inexpensive and widely available but has been found to reduce COVID-19 mort ality by 81% . Withal, information technology continues to be ignored in favor of more expensive, and less effective, 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 non let them to escape their contract, which states that fifty-fifty if a drug will be establish to care for COVID19 the contract cannot be voided."

Even if Pfizer fails to deliver vaccine doses within their estimated delivery menstruum, the purchaser may not cancel the gild. Further, Pfizer tin make adjustments to the number of contracted doses and their delivery schedule, "based on principles to be determined past Pfizer," and the country buying the vaccines must "hold to whatever revision."

Information technology doesn't matter if the vaccines are delivered severely late, even at a point when they're no longer needed, as it's made clear that

"Nether no circumstances will Pfizer be subject to or liable for whatever belatedly delivery penalties." Equally you lot might suspect, the contract also "forbids returns under any circumstances."

The big secret: Pfizer charged U.Due south. More than Than Other Countries

While COVID-19 vaccines are "free" to receive in the U.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 different prices to different purchases is common in the drug industry, information technology's ofttimes frowned upon.

In the case of the toll disparity betwixt the U.S. and the European union, Pfizer is said to have given a toll pause to the EU considering information technology financially supported the evolution of their COVID-xix vaccine. Nevertheless, Ehden noted, "U.S. taxpayers got screwed by Pfizer, probably also State of israel." Also, Pfizer makes a signal to annotation that countries have no right to withhold payment to the company for whatever reason.

Plain, this includes in the case of receiving damaged appurtenances. Purchasers of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines are not entitled to decline them "based on service complaints," unless they practise not conform to specifications or the FDA's Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is above any local law of the state."

While the purchaser has virtually no fashion of canceling the contract, Pfizer tin terminate the agreement in the outcome of a "material breach" of whatever term in their contract.

Safety and efficacy 'not currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine must also acknowledge two facts that accept largely been brushed nether 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 rapidly adult due to the emergency circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and volition keep to exist studied after provision of the Vaccine to Purchaser under this Agreement.

"Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse furnishings of the Vaccine that are non currently known."

Indemnification by the purchaser is also explicitly required by the contract, which states, under section viii.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 any of their respective Affiliates may directly or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the enquiry ...
"from and against whatsoever and all suits, claims, deportment, demands, losses, amercement, 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 period of 10 years.

Non only does Pfizer have total indemnification, but at that place's too a section in the contract titled, "Assumption of Defense by Purchaser," which states that in the issue 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 adequate to Indemnitee(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 by the Indemnitee(s) in connectedness with any Indemnified Claim shall be reimbursed on a quarterly basis by Purchaser.'"

Buried in the March 17, 2020, Federal Annals — the daily journal of the U.S. regime — in a certificate titled, "Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Confronting COVID-19," is language that establishes a new COVID-19 vaccine courtroom — similar to the federal vaccine court that already exists.

In the U.South., vaccine makers already savor full indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine nether the PREP Act. If you lot're injured by a COVID vaccine (or a select group of other vaccines designated under the act), you'd take to file a compensation merits with the Countermeasures Injury Bounty Programme (CICP), which is funded by U.Due south. taxpayers via Congressional cribbing 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 compensation. As reported by Dr. Meryl Nass, the maximum payout yous can receive — even in cases of permanent disability or death — is $250,000 per person; nonetheless, you'd have to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you a dime.

The CICP also has a one-twelvemonth statute of limitations, then you have to act quickly, which is also difficult since information technology's unknown if long-term effects could occur more than a year subsequently.

Pfizer accused of abuse of ability

As is apparent in Pfizer's confidential contract with Albania, the drug giant wants governments to guarantee the company volition be compensated for any expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against it. Pfizer has also demanded that countries put up sovereign assets , including bank reserves, military bases and embassy 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 2021 that Brazil rejected Pfizer's demands, calling them "abusive." The demands included that Brazil:

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

STAT News besides referred to concerns by legal experts, who also suggested Pfizer's demands were an corruption of power. Mark 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 evolution then this vaccine rollout. At present, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So there's very minimal risk for the manufacturer involved there."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse furnishings rise

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative secret vaccine deals across the earth. In June 2021, they signed i of their biggest contracts to date — with the Philippine government for 40 1000000 doses .

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

In the U.Yard., as of July 15, 87.5% of the developed population had received 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 67.1% had received ii. Yet, symptomatic cases among partially and fully vaccinated are on the rise , with an average of 15,537 new infections a mean solar day being detected, a twoscore% increase from the week before.

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

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

Many other adverse events are likewise appearing, ranging in risks from the biologically agile SARS-CoV-2 spike protein used in the vaccine to blood clots, reproductive toxicity and myocarditis ( eye inflammation ). As you can see in the confidential indemnification agreements, however, even if the vaccine turns out to be a dismal failure — and a adventure to brusk- and long-term health — countries have no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

One question that nosotros should all be asking is this: If the COVID-nineteen 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 not necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.