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Vaccine makers have nada to lose by marketing their experimental COVID-xix shots, even if they cause serious injury and death, as they relish full indemnity against injuries occurring from COVID-19 vaccines or any other pandemic vaccine under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Deed, passed in the U.Southward. in 2005.

The full extent of their COVID-19 vaccine indemnification agreements with countries, all the same, is a closely guarded secret, 1 that has remained highly confidential — until now. A leaked document broken down past Twitter user Ehden reveals the shocking terms of Pfizer's international COVID-nineteen vaccine agreements. He wrote:

"These agreements are confidential, but luckily i land did not protect the contract document well enough, so I managed to get a agree of a copy. As you are virtually to see, there is a good 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 betwixt Pfizer and Albania, was originally posted in snippets on Twitter, just Twitter at present has them marked as "unavailable." Copies of the tweets are available on Treadreader, however.

The Albania understanding appears very similar to another contract, published online, betwixt Pfizer and the Dominican Republic. It covers not only COVID-nineteen vaccines, simply any production that enhances the use or effects of such vaccines. Countries that purchase Pfizer's COVID-19 shot must acknowledge that "Pfizer's efforts to develop and manufacture the Product" are "subject to significant risks and uncertainties."

And in the event that a drug or other treatment comes out that can foreclose, treat or cure COVID-xix, the agreement stands, and the country must follow through with their lodge. Ivermectin , for example, is not simply condom, inexpensive and widely bachelor but 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 considering the agreement that countries had with Pfizer does not allow them to escape their contract, which states that fifty-fifty if a drug will be found to treat COVID19 the contract cannot be voided."

Even if Pfizer fails to deliver vaccine doses inside their estimated delivery menstruation, the purchaser may not cancel the lodge. Further, Pfizer can 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 "agree 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, equally information technology's made clear that

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

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

While COVID-19 vaccines are "free" to receive in the U.Southward., they're being paid for by taxpayer dollars at a rate of $19.5011 per dose. Republic of albania, the leaked contract revealed, paid $12 per dose, while the European union paid $14.seventy per shot. While charging dissimilar prices to dissimilar purchases is mutual in the drug industry, it's often frowned upon.

In the instance of the price disparity betwixt the U.South. and the Eu, Pfizer is said to have given a price interruption to the European union because it financially supported the development of their COVID-19 vaccine. Still, Ehden noted, "U.South. taxpayers got screwed past Pfizer, probably as well Israel." Also, Pfizer makes a signal to note that countries have no right to withhold payment to the company for any reason.

Apparently, this includes in the case of receiving damaged goods. Purchasers of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines are non entitled to reject them "based on service complaints," unless they do not conform to specifications or the FDA's Current Expert Manufacturing Practice regulations. And, Ehden adds, "This agreement is above any local law of the country."

While the purchaser has nigh no way of canceling the contract, Pfizer can terminate the understanding in the event of a "fabric alienation" of any term in their contract.

Safety and efficacy 'non currently known'

The purchaser of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine must too acknowledge 2 facts that have largely been brushed under the rug: Both their efficacy and risks are unknown. Co-ordinate to section 5.5 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 will go on to be studied after provision of the Vaccine to Purchaser nether this Agreement.

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

Indemnification by the purchaser is also explicitly required by the contract, which states, nether 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, 3rd parties to whom Pfizer or BioNTech or whatsoever of their corresponding Affiliates may directly or indirectly owe an indemnity based on the research ...
"from and against whatever and all suits, claims, deportment, 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 keep the terms of the contract confidential for a period of 10 years.

Not only does Pfizer have full indemnification, but in that location'southward also a section in the contract titled, "Supposition of Defence past Purchaser," which states that in the event Pfizer suffers losses for which information technology is seeking indemnification, the purchaser

"shall promptly assume conduct and control of the defense force of such Indemnified Claims on behalf of the Indemnitee with counsel adequate to Indemnitee(south), whether or not the Indemnified Merits 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(southward) in connection with any Indemnified Claim shall be reimbursed on a quarterly basis by Purchaser.'"

Cached in the March 17, 2022, Federal Annals — the daily journal of the U.S. government — in a document titled, "Announcement Nether the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-xix," is linguistic communication that establishes a new COVID-nineteen vaccine courtroom — like to the federal vaccine courtroom that already exists.

In the U.S., vaccine makers already enjoy total indemnity against injuries occurring from this or any other pandemic vaccine nether the PREP Human action. If you're injured by a COVID vaccine (or a select group of other vaccines designated under the deed), you'd have to file a compensation claim with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which is funded past U.S. taxpayers via Congressional appropriation to the Department of Health and Human being Services (DHHS).

While similar to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which applies to nonpandemic vaccines, the CICP is fifty-fifty less generous when it comes to compensation. As reported by Dr. Meryl Nass, the maximum payout you tin receive — even in cases of permanent disability or expiry — is $250,000 per person; however, y'all'd have to exhaust your private insurance policy before the CICP gives you lot a dime.

The CICP too has a one-yr statute of limitations, so you have to human activity quickly, which is too difficult since it'due south unknown if long-term effects could occur more than a year later.

Pfizer accused of corruption of power

Equally is credible in Pfizer's confidential contract with Albania, the drug giant wants governments to guarantee the company volition exist compensated for any expenses resulting from injury lawsuits against it. Pfizer has too demanded that countries put upward sovereign assets , including banking concern reserves, war machine bases and embassy buildings, equally collateral for expected vaccine injury lawsuits resulting from its COVID-19 inoculation.

New Delhi-based World Is One News (WION) reported in February 2022 that Brazil rejected Pfizer's demands, calling them "calumniating." 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 as well suggested Pfizer's demands were an corruption of power. Mark Eccleston-Turner, a lecturer in global wellness law at Keele University in England, told STAT:

"[Pfizer] is trying to eke out as much profit and minimize its hazard at every juncture with this vaccine development so this vaccine rollout. Now, the vaccine development has been heavily subsidized already. So there's very minimal take a chance for the manufacturer involved at that place."

Signs of COVID vaccine failure, adverse furnishings rise

Pfizer continues to sign lucrative cloak-and-dagger vaccine deals across the globe. In June 2022, they signed one of their biggest contracts to date — with the Philippine government for 40 million doses .

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

In the U.M., as of July 15, 87.five% of the adult population had received ane dose of COVID-nineteen vaccine and 67.1% had received two. All the same, symptomatic cases among partially and fully vaccinated are on the rise , with an average of 15,537 new infections a day being detected, a 40% increment from the week before.

In a July nineteen study from the CDC, the agency likewise reported that the Vaccine Adverse Issue Reporting System (VAERS) had received 12,313 reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine — more than than doubling from the half dozen,079 reports of decease from the calendar week earlier.

Before long after the report, however, they reverted the number to the 6,079 from the calendar week earlier, indicating by default that no deaths from the vaccine had occurred that week, raising serious questions well-nigh transparency and vaccine rubber.

Many other adverse events are besides actualization, ranging in risks from the biologically active SARS-CoV-two spike protein used in the vaccine to blood clots, reproductive toxicity and myocarditis ( heart inflammation ). As you tin encounter in the confidential indemnification agreements, however, even if the vaccine turns out to be a dismal failure — and a adventure to short- and long-term wellness — countries accept no recourse, nor does anyone who received the experimental shots.

I question that we should all be asking is this: If the COVID-19 vaccines are, in fact, every bit safe and effective as the manufacturers claim, why do 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.