Category: Pfizer

Tornado That Hit Pfizer Facility Unlikely to Cause Major Drug Supply Shortages: FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicated it didn’t expect major shortages in drug manufacturing after a tornado hit a Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday. “We do not expect there to be any immediate significant impacts on supply given the products are currently at hospitals and in the distribution system,” FDA Commissioner…


Tornado Damage to Pfizer Plant Could Trigger Nationwide Drug Shortages: Health Officials

Health officials said that the tornado-caused damage to a Pfizer plant in North Carolina could cause future drug shortages in the United States. On Wednesday, the Pfizer facility in Rocky Mount appeared to sustain a direct hit from what National Weather Service officials say was an EF-3 tornado, halting operations at the plant. The company…


Tornado Heavily Damages Pfizer Pharma Plant in North Carolina

A tornado heavily damaged a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday, ripping parts of its roofs and scattering large quantities of medicine stored at the factory. “I’ve got reports of 50,000 pallets of medicine that are strewn across the facility and damaged through the rain and the wind,” Nash County Sheriff Keith…


Australia Ceases Reporting Cases of Myocarditis Post-COVID Vaccination

Australia’s therapeutic goods administration (TGA) has announced that reports on myocarditis and pericarditis cases following mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna are not necessary anymore and will no longer be provided. Australia’s national drug authority says this is because the rates have stabilised. However, the TGA will “continue to monitor and review these adverse…


German Scientists Uncover Evidence That EU Pfizer-BioNTech Batches Included Placebos

Commentary German scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted of placebos—and hence were not even subjected to quality-control testing by the German agency which was in principle responsible for approving their release. The scientists, Dr….


Ex-Pfizer Employee Faces Insider-Trading Charges on COVID-19 Drug Trial

The Department of Justice has accused a former Pfizer employee and his friend and business partner in participating in an insider-trading scheme based on confidential information about the results of clinical trials of a medicine used to treat COVID-19. Prosecutors in New York have accused 44-year-old Amit Dagar, of Hillsborough, New Jersey, of buying call…


What happens when mRNA tech is used in flu vaccines? Higher effectiveness or higher danger?

The two mRNA vaccines – Pfizer and Moderna – had no impact on overall mortality a re-analysis of trial data shows. While they prevented some Covid-19 deaths this was offset by higher cardiovascular-related deaths for the vaccinated. The jury is largely out on how big the cardiovascular fallout of the mRNA vaccines will be pending…


CDC Panel Divided on Recommending RSV Vaccine for All Older Adults 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) panel of experts voted on Wednesday against recommending the RSV vaccine for all older adults. Instead, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) concluded that anyone aged 60 and older “may” consider receiving a single dose of either Pfizer’s or GSK’s new RSV vaccine and that the…


Warner Mendenhall: Medical Malpractice, Unprecedented Overreach, and Hospital Protocols That Killed

“The upper bounds of damages against Pfizer would be $3.6 trillion dollars. And obviously, Pfizer’s not worth $3.6 trillion dollars. That company would have to be seized in bankruptcy, its assets distributed and sold off, and I think that’s an appropriate end for that company. So I’m doing everything I can to get there.” After…


[PREMIERING NOW] Warner Mendenhall: Medical Malpractice, Unprecedented Overreach, and Hospital Protocols That Killed

“The upper bounds of damages against Pfizer would be $3.6 trillion dollars. And obviously, Pfizer’s not worth $3.6 trillion dollars. That company would have to be seized in bankruptcy, its assets distributed and sold off, and I think that’s an appropriate end for that company. So I’m doing everything I can to get there.” After…