Thread by @elleprovocateur

For a virus that presents "few to no symptoms" for the majority, "U.S. Orders Up to 600 Million Doses of #Pfizer, BioNTech Covid #Vaccine" (Bloomberg).

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

So let's take a look at Pfizer.

"Pfizer is a publicly-traded global pharma corp.headquartered in NYC. Its revenues reached $52.5 billion in 2017. #Pfizer makes Advil, Xanax, #DepoProvera, Neosporin, #Lyrica & Dimetapp. Pfizer manufacturers more than 350 different pharmaceuticals & operates in 180 countries.

Pfizer's Lyrica, the new vallium, linked to depression, anxiety & suicide, now top pain medication on PBS. #Pregabalin #Addiction. Addicts of #hydromorphone (#Opioid) (Pfizer) have found a new addiction w/ #Lyrica. Capsules are opened, crushed & snorted.

thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-d…

September 2, 2009: "US Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History
#Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for #Fraudulent #Marketing"

justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

Ongoing lawsuits against #Pfizer over Protonix. #Lawsuits charge that Pfizer failed to warn about the risk of kidney disease, injury, failure & acute interstitial nephritis.

2016: "Pfizer Agrees to Two Protonix Settlements Totaling $839 Million":

drugwatch.com/proton-pump-in…

#Prempro: "Nearly 10,000 women filed Prempro #breastcancer lawsuits against #Pfizer. By 2012, Pfizer settled most of the claims for more than $1 billion."

aboutlawsuits.com/prempro-settle…

Chantix lawsuits against #Pfizer. Chantix caused suicidal thoughts & severe psychological disorders. In 2014 the #Pfizer corporation settled the cases for approximately $300 million.

cssfirm.com/2014/12/09/cha…

In 1996, #Pfizer conducted an unapproved clinical trial on #children with #meningitis in #Nigeria. "Eleven children died and dozens were left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, #Trovan."

theguardian.com/world/2011/aug…

#Africa #Colonialism

Biggest ever pharma #lawsuits by settlement amount as of June 25 2019. Ranking the top ten:

1. #GlaxoSmithKline – $3bn
2. Takeda Pharmaceutical – $2.4bn
3. Pfizer – $2.3bn
4. Johnson & Johnson – $2.2bn
5. Abbott Laboratories – $1.5bn

pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/bigge…

6. Eli Lilly and Company – $1.4bn
7. Merck – $950m
8. TAP Pharmaceutical – $875m
9. Bayer and Johnson & Johnson – $775m
10. Amgen – $762m

#Pfizer & #BioNTech stocks rose Monday after the corporations agreed to supply 30 million doses of their coronavirus #vaccine to the U.K.

"In [] 2012 the US Sec. & Exchange Comm. announced that it had reached a $45 million settlement w/ #Pfizer to resolve charges that its subsidiaries, especially Wyeth, had #bribed overseas #doctors & other #healthcare profs to increase foreign sales."

corp-research.org/pfizer

"In 1971 the #EPA asked #Pfizer to end its long-time practice of dumping #industrial #wastes from its plant in Groton, #Connecticut in the Long Island Sound. The company was reported to be disposing of about 1 million gallons of waste each year by that method."

"In 1991 #Pfizer agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle #EPA charges that the company seriously damaged the #Delaware #River by failing to install #pollution-control equipment at one of its plants in Pennsylvania."

The sought future of "#healthcare" - "The #WEF, the international organization for public-private cooperation, hosts the Private-Sector Constituency of #UHC2030 and provides a platform for interaction for all UHC2030 partners & health systems networks."

weforum.org/projects/uhc20…

The #UHC2030 hosted by the #WorldBank Group and the #WHO. "UHC does not mean healthcare is free. It means that personal (out-of-pocket) payments do not deter people from using services and that people are protected from "catastrophic health expenditures"".

Dr Romeo Quijano: "#Pfizer claims that it was involved in the commercial prod. of a #smallpox #vaccine in the early 1900s... These medical advances coincided w/ [] what has been called "New #Imperialism" when European states established vast empires..."

wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/04/15/vac…

Global #Health & US #Imperialism by Jacob Levich

"Soon after its founding, #BMGF invested $205 million to purchase stakes in major pharmaceutical companies,
including Merck & Co., #Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson, & #GlaxoSmithKline (Bank and Buckman 2002)." @cordeliers

#Gates

"#BMGF has consistently focused on promoting
precisely the new & expensive “blockbuster
#vaccines” that pad Big Pharma’s profit margins.
The bulk of its early investments were geared
toward immunization against pneumococcal disease
(w/ a vaccine developed by Pfizer)... [J Levich]

"In 2009, #Gavi pioneered the use of a new
type of development financing, the Advance Market
Commitment (AMC), as a means of subsidizing
the sale of #Pfizer’s new pneumococcal
#vaccine, #Prevnar, to low-income countries (Gavi
2009). [J Levich]

#Rwanda #Benin #Cameroon #Africa

The sought future of privatized universal "#healthcare" - The #WEF "hosts the #PrivateSector Constituency of #UHC2030 & provides a platform for interaction for all UHC2030 partners & health systems networks" - inclusive of partner #Pfizer:

https://twitter.com/elleprovocateur/status/1286338223728467974