Category: Pfizer

NTD News Today (May 17): McCarthy: Debt Deal Possible by Week’s End; NIH Nominee Received Major Pfizer Funding

President Joe Biden cut short his trip to Asia this week to resume discussions about raising the debt ceiling and curbing the threat of an economic crisis. NTD hears from an expert on how a deal could take shape and steps to avoid this recurring problem. Biden’s nominee to head the National Institutes of Health…


Judge Orders FDA to Speed Up Release of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data From 23.5 Years to Just 2

A federal judge in Texas this week ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public data it relied on to license COVID-19 vaccines—Moderna’s for adults and Pfizer’s for children—at an accelerated rate, requiring all documents to be made public by mid-2025 rather than, as the FDA wanted, over the course of around 23.5…


Pfizer Throws Support Behind Changing Australia’s Constitution

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is backing the contentious Indigenous Voice to Parliament to change Australia’s Constitution to better reflect Aboriginal interests. Pfizer is the latest corporate entity to throw its support behind the proposal that will set up an almost-parallel layer of government exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Anne Harris, managing director of Pfizer…


Top US Hospital: For Every Vaccine Dose, Rate of COVID-19 Infection Goes Up

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—A top U.S. hospital has a study in pre-print that shows the more COVID-19 shots their employees get, the higher their chance is of catching COVID-19 itself. The Cleveland Clinic is the world’s largest network of hospitals and outpatient facilities. “When a study comes out of Cleveland Clinic, people take it very seriously,”…


BioNTech’s 30 Billion Reasons

Commentary The real winner in the COVID-19 vaccine sweepstakes is the German company BioNTech, not Pfizer. Much has been made of Pfizer reaching the extraordinary mark of $100 billion in revenues in 2022, in large part undoubtedly thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and its famous COVID-19 “vaccine.” Indeed, Pfizer’s year-end earnings report shows that COVID-19 vaccine sales alone account…


FDA Approves First-Ever RSV Vaccine for Older Adults

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use in adults aged 60 and over on Wednesday. The approval of its drug Arexvy is a major victory for British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which has been rushing to get its RSV vaccine out to the market before…


Groups Lobbying for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Were Funded by Pfizer

Multiple organizations that pushed for COVID-19 vaccine mandates received funding from Pfizer, according to financial disclosures. The Chicago Urban League President Karen Freeman-Wilson said in August 2021 that the benefits of mandates “far outweighs” concerns about them. She did not mention that her organization was on the receiving end of a $100,000 grant for a…


Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Sales Crash as Company Reports Drop in Revenue

Pfizer’s revenue dropped in the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to flagging COVID-19 vaccine sales. The company reported $18.3 billion in revenue, down from $25.6 billion in the first quarter of 2022. Pfizer made just $7.1 billion from its COVID-19 vaccines and the COVID-19 pill after reaping more than $56 billion from the products…


Texas Attorney General Investigating Whether COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Misled Public

The highest-ranking prosecutor in Texas is launching an investigation into whether the three top COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have misled the public. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is probing whether Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson misrepresented the efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccines, the Republican announced on May 1. The companies may have violated the Texas Deceptive…


Texas Attorney General to Investigate Whether COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Misled Public

The highest-ranking prosecutor in Texas is launching an investigation into whether the three top COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have misled the public. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is probing whether Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson misrepresented the efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccines, the Republican announced on May 1. The companies may have violated the Texas Deceptive…