Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is one of the few attorneys general in the nation still seeking justice for the blatant assault on Americans' civil liberties that occurred during the Covid pandemic.
Paxton's lawsuit, filed Thursday, accuses Pfizer of making false claims about the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The state's top prosecutor says Pfizer also mounted an Internet censorship effort to suppress doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the lucrative shots.
Pfizer is accused in Paxton's complaint of engaging in deceptive marketing activities that violate the Texas Deceptive Commercial Practices Act.
The suit argues that Pfizer misrepresented the ability of its vaccine to prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting jab recipients and spreading throughout the population. It also claims that the company's claims of “95 percent effectiveness” were intentionally misleading.
Here, the proof is in the pudding. Although Pfizer's 95% figure made their vaccines look very effective, the truth was very different. When it started making these claims, Pfizer had on average only two months of clinical trial data to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Of the 17,000 placebo recipients, only 162 acquired COVID-19 during that two-month period. According to these figures, vaccination status had a negligible impact on whether a trial participant contracted COVID-19. The risk of acquiring COVID-19 was initially so small during this short window that Pfizer's vaccine only fractionally improved a person's risk of infection. And the absolute risk reduction for a vaccine recipient (the federal Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) preferred metric of effectiveness) showed that the vaccine was only 0.85% effective. In addition, according to Pfizer's own data, to prevent a case of COVID-19 it was necessary to be vaccinated. That was the simple truth. But Pfizer's evasion of public representations bore no resemblance to reality.
The Texas lawsuit then lays out the dominoes that fell because of this misrepresentation of vaccine effectiveness.
After seeding the market with its misleading “95% effective” representation, Pfizer
expanded its campaign of deception on several fronts:
• First, the duration of protection: The FDA acknowledged when it first authorized Pfizer's vaccine that it was “not possible” to know the effectiveness of the vaccine beyond two months. But in early 2021, Pfizer deliberately created the false impression that its vaccine had long-lasting and sustained protection, going so far as to withhold very relevant data and information from the consuming public showing that efficacy rapidly declined (State of Texas v. Pfizer , Inc. Plaintiff's Original Petition Page 3 of 4)
• Second, transmission: The FDA warned Pfizer that it “needed” additional information to determine whether the vaccine protected against the “transmission” of COVID-19 between people. But Pfizer engaged in a scare campaign, tapping into the public's intense fears during the year-long pandemic, insinuating that vaccination was necessary for Americans to protect their loved ones from contracting COVID-19.
• Third, variant protection: Pfizer made false and unsupported claims about the vaccine's performance against variants, including specifically the so-called Delta variant. The vaccine performed very poorly against the Delta variant, and Pfizer's data confirmed this fact. However, Pfizer told the public that its vaccine was “very, very, very effective against Delta.”
“Pfizer's product, driven by the company's misrepresentations, made the company rich
enormously,” the lawsuit added.
The Texas lawsuit accuses Pfizer of five violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The complaint specifically mentions the company's targeting of former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member.
According to the lawsuit, Gottlieb participated in flagging social media posts and accounts that questioned the efficacy of Pfizer's vaccine, knowing that such acts would have serious consequences for those accounts.
Paxton wants Pfizer to refrain from making any future promises about the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine.
The Republican prosecutor also wants Pfizer to be barred from partnering with social media platforms to discourage open debate about the vaccine.
It also seeks $10,000 in civil penalties and more damages for each violation.
If it can be proven in court that Pfizer defrauded the public while pushing its Covid vaccines and colluded to silence its critics, it would provide evidence of a criminal conspiracy and open the drug company to massive civil lawsuits .
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