Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and progressive healthcare campaigners from across the U.S. rallied at the headquarters of Big Pharma’s top lobbying group last week to denounce the industry’s ongoing effort to tank Democrats’ prescription drug-pricing reforms.
Europe’s drugs regulator has advised that all adults can receive a third, booster dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine six months after the second dose.
The People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA) has carried out an analysis on Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna which suggests that the three drugmakers are making as much as $65,000 combined profit every minute. This conclusion was based on calculations of the firms’ own earning reports. The profit is generated from their COVID-19 vaccines.
‘Brussels EU’ Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc should start discussing mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.
The latest statistics from South Africa reveal that intensive care admissions for the Omicron Covid variant are running at just a third of what they were at the same point in the country’s Delta wave. The figures come following the chair of the South African Medical Association (SAMA) reporting that Omicron’s symptoms are mostly “very, very mild” and could treated at home. With even US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci now admitting the new variant is “almost certainly” not more severe than Delta, the question that urgently needs to be asked is a very simple one: why is global tension being raised to a state of panic?
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says that a fourth COVID vaccine will be given to health workers and people aged over 60.
Pharmaceutical Firms Rake In Billions With COVID Jabs
COVID vaccines have brought billions of dollars to the coffers of pharmaceutical companies.