In November 2020, Dr. Berkeley Phillips, the Medical Director of Pfizer U.K., shared a post from a fellow employee on Twitter that said:
Our vaccine candidate is 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 and 94% effective in people over 65 years old. We will file all of our data with health authorities within days. Thank you to every volunteer in our trial and to all who are tirelessly fighting this pandemic.
Four other Pfizer U.K. colleagues re-tweeted the same post. Pfizer also identified four more U.K.-based colleagues who liked the tweet.
In the U.K., the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) is the self-regulatory body which administers the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Code of Practice for the industry.
In a recent report, the PMCPA Panel noted the “tweet clearly referred to the outcome of the Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine being developed to protect against COVID-19. The Panel noted that Clause 3.1 prohibited the promotion of a medicine prior to the grant of its marketing authorisation”.
AUTH/3741/2/23 – Complainant v Pfizer: Promotional use of Twitter
In breach of the code, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) charged Pfizer administrative costs of £34,800 for this breach.
To put this into context, Pfizer’s revenues jumped to $81.3 billion in 2021, up from $41.7 billion in 2020. So, £34,800 equates to 0.00005% of Pfizer’s 2021 revenues. Or, to put it another way, Pfizer earned about $154,680 per minute in 2021, so the fine equates to roughly 17 seconds of Pfizer’s revenues.
Pfizer has already been reprimanded six times for its promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- AUTH/3437/12/20 – Complainant v Pfizer: Alleged promotion of Covid vaccine on LinkedIn
- AUTH/3422/11/20 – Complainant v Pfizer: Alleged promotion of unlicensed Covid vaccine on LinkedIn
- AUTH/3519/5/21 – Member of the public v Pfizer: Misleading press release
- AUTH/3721/1/23 – Complainant v Pfizer: Allegations about Pfizer U.K. tweets
- AUTH/3438/12/20 – Complainant v Pfizer: Alleged promotion of COVID-19 vaccine on LinkedIn
- AUTH/3591/12/21 – A complaint on behalf of UsForThem v Pfizer
This latest fine comes after Pfizer’s Chief Executive, Dr. Albert Bourla, was found guilty in November 2022 of misleading U.K. parents over the safety of the Covid vaccine for children.
Bourla told the BBC, “People will be likely to need to have annual Covid vaccinations for many years to come.” He thought this would be necessary to maintain a “very high level of protection”.
He also told that bastion of truth the BBC that immunising children in the U.K. and Europe would be a ”very good idea”.
“Covid in schools is thriving,” he said.
“This is disturbing, significantly, the educational system, and there are kids that will have severe symptoms. So there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits, completely, are in favour of doing it.”
Dr. Albert Bourla thought this would be needed to maintain a “very high level of protection”.
The U.K. regulator found Pfizer guilty of violating three PMCPA code of practice sections.
But do you think this mattered to Dr. Albert Bourla? By the way, Albert is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; he’s done very well out of the pandemic. In 2021, he was named CEO of the Year by CNN Business. His estimated net worth is at least $35.6 Million as of February 23rd 2024. Albert owns over 127,674 units of Pfizer stock worth over $12,123,852, and over the last 10 years he has sold stock worth over $5,557,386. But this is chicken feed compared to his remuneration of $17,929,000 as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Pfizer.
But a month after Bourla had taken the BBC for a ride, he was back on the stock exchange’s trading floors: the largest trade he ever made was exercising 222,328 units of Pfizer stock on December 15th 2022, worth over $6,058,438.
Dr. Phillips, the U.K.’s Medical Director for Pfizer, said the social media post was “accidental and unintentional”. Yet, everything at this level is fine-tuned to promote the stock price and further the pharmaceutical agenda.
Promoting an unlicensed medicine or unauthorised indication is a criminal offence. The penalty is a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. We think it’s about time someone faced an actual penalty rather than pennies for breaches of the code.
Dr. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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He’s going to be barred from standing in any future election, so this is irrelevant.
There won’t be any future elections.
The way things are going I wouldn’t be surprised!
But it will help prevent the spread of ‘the virus’, so it’s perfectly OK.
Quite so. As I said yesterday, what really worries me is what happens when someone competent, hard-working and dominating gets into his shoes. Inevitably, it is the very worst people, with zero empathy or care for others, who get to the top and, in an increasingly totalitarian world, that will include Hitlers and Stalins. Bad enough now, but we ain’t seen nothing yet!!
You can mark Matt Hancock down for that. He thinks he’s saved the country.
All hail King Matt.
You seem to be suggesting that Johnson is harmless. Even if that were true he has cleared the ground, got rid of the Overton window and made it clear that anything is possible to dictator.
That has already happened, Gove is the man in power. Boris is just the puppet.
ok i’ll bite.. why not?
Killed far more people (+millions in the 3rd world) through lockdowns and making the NHS a Covid only ‘service’ for 9 months (as the sole government in the world), than were killed through and with Covid- a number which we increased significantly through our reckless policy of sending people from hospitals into nursing homes untested, and by censoring, diffamating, manipulating and withholding data on the cheap, effective, safe and available treatments for Covid and those treatments themselves, and, possibly, by coercing people en masse into getting only rushed gene therapies instead.
This was inspired by Leonardo Conti and Josef Mengele, of course.
Stats from the Care Quality Commission show 3 out of 5 deaths from Covid last year were disabled folk with illegal DNR’s slapped on them; can’t remember what percentage (high) of those were people with learning difficulties. Sounds pretty Mengele to me!
Did Prince Philip die with or from covid? Or is he the only person to die on Britain for over a year by natural causes
Vaccine….
Yes. He had recently had the vaccine. We should keep an eye on ma’am, as she had it at the same time.
espec if she still has to get second dose and is also heartbroken at loss of husband – could soon be a case of all hail King Charles
The crucial question, though, is when lockdowns return. The local elections 6 May, G7 11-13 June and then the big one, Mr Johnson’s wedding in July, mean that restrictions will be mainly dropped to accommodate the Govt’s real priorities. But after that? The ‘return’ of ‘flu, the Ruritanian variant and climate change targets will have us slammed down from next Oct, I believe.
I have wondered if Mr Johnson is fully aware of the nature of his fiancée, and is dragging this out due to dread of telling her that the wedding is off, and sod the rest of us.
I often wonder if she was planted.
Unlikely that she was planted, as he’s the vegetable.
I have often cheekily wondered if the ban on weddings has not been convenient for him.
No. I think the Azerbaijan variant is the really dangerous one to watch – but not until after the wedding, obviously.
Only if we, along with the rest of Europe, allow them to get away with it.
Johnson has always had a reputation for fickleness and unreliability, but his transformation from fun-loving libertarian to joyless woke authoritarian is beyond parody. I’ll be voting for an anti-lockdown candidate in the forthcoming local elections; and if no such candidate is standing, I’ll simply spoil the ballot paper.
My wife spoke to someone today who is convinced that he has been killed 4 years ago already and been replaced with a Doppelgänger…
As good an explanation as any.
Is Wilfred real? The original pictures weren’t very convincing to be honest.
Me too.
Shouldn’t that be Boris Rong Un?
Kim Jong Johnson
Never voting Tory again … I just might be persuaded to change my mind if Boris is removed and given a lengthy prison sentence along with his entire cabinet and then replaced with someone like Sir Charles Walker maybe … who seems to be genuine enough and share my concerns about the governments tyrannical response to covid19 and the removal of our freedoms and liberty in this country since March last year … the problem I have though is that I also trusted Boris Johnston once upon a time to be a guardian of our freedoms and liberties only for him to do a complete about turn and transform himself into a cross between Caroline Lucas and Pol Pot. That is my fear about voting for any Tory candidate again – they all seem to change their tune once they get into power drop their conservatism and become Blairites instead
If there is an anti-lockdown candidate in the area (Reclaim, Reform whatever) they will definitely get my vote otherwise my ballot paper gets spoiled.
Me too; been a Tory voter for 50 years but never ever again! Still have to pinch myself some mornings when I wake up to believe that a Tory Government had reduced us to that of a totalitarian police state.
How many female Tory MPs claim to be huge Margaret Thatcher fans only to turn into Yvette Cooper as soon as they are elected?
I can trace my falling out with the conservative party to 1995 when John Redwood lost his leadership battle with John Major. Redwood’s always been a voice of sense and reason and he’s currently on the right side of this issue. Like you I will never vote for them again and regret lending them my vote this time around.
And still they clap.
To be fair to Fat Boy (the younger one), he doesn’t really pretend that he cares about people, so he has the virtue of (murderous) honesty compared to the Fat Man.
The latest polls suggest there enough ‘savients’ willing to give him everlasting leadership.
Polls are often wrong.
Brexit.
Donald Trump…
Dr Naomi Wolf on Vaccine Passports and why they Equal Slavery – The Daily Clout
https://theduran.com/dr-naomi-wolf-on-vaccine-passports-and-why-they-equal-slavery-the-daily-clout/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
He forgot: Joe Stalin Biden
That one’s most devoted adherent is Little Wrinkly Tortoise Would-Be Josef Stalin Drakeford.
How can so many still support Johnson’s government?! Deranged idiots, the lot of them! Voting for an anti-lockdown party or spoiling your ballot paper is the ONLY rational thing to do.
What a brilliant summary of Boris’ complete and utter destruction of this country. Retweet, Facebook, telegram to every friend and/or enemy. Help get the word out.
Can you count on my vote? No Chance!
Wow, what great article. Puts into stark perspective the damage this country needs to face up to if we are to ever recover real control if our lives
Very apt article. I think we could all add to it.
Time to give the despot a bloody nose at the election box people.
I might cast a futile vote for the Liberal Democrats now they have belatedly started to remember that the name of their party means something.
I enjoyed reading this but will correct you on a Constitutional point.
The Constitution is The English Constitution, most recently affirmed in The 1689 Bill of Rights. A British Constitution has NEVER existed. The English Constitution gives us inalienable Rights. Those Rights have been and continue to be subverted by The British State.
Kim Jong Johnson is a better name but that’s the only quibble.
Johnson and his infandous cabal remind me of the Spitting Image’ sketch with Margaret Thatcher ordering. ‘What about the vegetables? They’ll have the same as me’.