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I don't know if anything ever came of it, but a whistleblower in their covid vaccine trial alleged data issues and ignoring negative side effects: > A regiona
by dilap 4y ago
I don't know if anything ever came of it, but a whistleblower in their covid vaccine trial alleged data issues and ignoring negative side effects:
> A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson (video 1), emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635 https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Even things like "Advertising where they shouldn't be" are not neccessarily innocuous; e.g. it can be promoting use of a drug in a situation that is known to be unsafe. In lawsuits regarding Bextra (which Pfizer ended up settling for around 1b),
> the state alleged that despite the significant safety concerns that led FDA to reject a request to market high dose Bextra for acute and surgical pain, Pfizer conducted a systematic, multi-pronged “off-label” promotional campaign for these very indications.