Pfizer Fined Just £34,800 for Promoting Vaccine Before Authorisation. When Will Bosses Face Real Consequences?

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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James.M

1 year ago

Why are people like Bourla allowed to get away with this blatant corruption? We know why, corruption at every level. The system is a self-perpetuating, revolving door of government officials, public institutions, pharma CEOs, and scientists whose only interest is funnelling money into an outdated medical paradigm that views illness and disease as something that requires magic bullet solutions. Its a perfect business model, unhealthy people create repeat business. As Robert F Kennedy Jr says $60 million profits from vaccines, but $600 million profits from medicines to treat the side effects. Iatrogenic illness is the third largest cause of illness and death in the USA. Thanks to Pfizer it probably now ranks #1.

RTSC

Reply to James.M

My neighbour, a 78 yr old woman who was previously fit as a fiddle, believed the nonsense and stupidly had 4 Covid jabs. She is now effectively disabled. Sight damaged; hearing damaged; can’t concentrate on anything and continual “brain fog;” trouble standing and balancing; racing heart; can’t walk more than a few yards without support and is permanently exhausted.

She now needs constant care, which is a massive problem as she lives alone. So far her family has rallied round, but that can’t continue indefinitely due to their own circumstances.

LMR

Reply to RTSC

This is so sad, and not uncommon. Her family should contact the Covid Vaccine Damage Legal Fund for help with Government compensation if they have not already done so. <code>https://www.cviblegalfund.co.uk/</code>

WyrdWoman

Perhaps we should consider the Italian approach:

Former Health Minister Roberto Speranza, who enforced vaccinations can no longer move without police protection. The Italians are waiting for him everywhere and shouting “Murderer”

https://twitter.com/luca04548/status/1776233970805395809

Sforzesca

Reply to WyrdWoman

Wouldn’t want them to do a Mussolini on him would we.

GroundhogDayAgain

Hancock deserves the same treatment.

Freddy Boy

Reply to GroundhogDayAgain

He certainly does ! Btw Has AB really had to pay 40k for the shyster’s legal fees ?

Ron Smith

At least some are waking up. Boris should be on the run wondering when someone will break his door down with a mall hammer.

-1

Reply to Ron Smith

He should be wondering after shouting GET BOOSTED at every opportunity !!..

Tony Soprano justice required !

transmissionofflame

It’s not just the bosses and it’s not just this technical breaking of some rule/law. The whole thing from start to finish stinks to high heaven – from before the “pandemic” was announced through to the “trials” and the “emergency” use authorisation and the mandates/huge propaganda effort. Pharma, politicians and “regulators” in a unholy alliance. If some laws have not been broken then there’s something wrong with the law.

I’m glad that someone is going after Bourla. His conduct was appalling.

I remember a video of him at the WEF crowing about vaxxports ensuring ‘compliance’ – a CEO who openly talked about population control, promoting the mandating of his company’s product, a jab paid for by governments (ie us) that would personally make him wealthy.

I shudder at the quote “there are kids that will have severe symptoms”. Lies and damn lies! Kids were never in danger, especially not to the extent that their and our freedoms should be shredded and left in tatters. How many kids actually had severe symptoms? I’d wager zero.

Bourla and the whole rotten regulatory gravy-train must fall, but given what we’ve seen I’m not confident of that. If it happens it won’t happen quickly.

The post office fiasco shows how these people close ranks even when wrongdoing is proven beyond doubt.

An interesting article from Trust The Evidence re claims made for vaccine injuries.

https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/who-is-afraid-of-helen-mcardle-and

Some kids – a very few – might have had severe symptoms. But that’s because they were already extremely vulnerable due to other serious health issues. That MAY have been a justification to give some of them an experimental product on the basis of an individual risk assessment but was absolutely no justification to jab millions of children who were perfectly healthy and at no risk.

Hester

What makes an individual so monumentally morally corrupt? where and when did such festering decay start? clearly there is no afterlife in Bourla’s mind to concern him, and clearly he believes himself protected from ever having to be held accountable for the misery and deaths that he has caused, because there are so many vested interests who think like him surrounding him. One can only hope that some form of divine intervention takes place as I fear he will live out his life in luxury and decadence protected and satisfied by his own hubris.

Reply to Hester

Yes just like Dr Mengle, evaded capture in South America and had a stroke in his pool.

Marcus Aurelius knew

£34,800 : less than three times the penalty meted out to a lovely young couple for opening their cafe during a non-existent pandemic.

There truly is NO JUSTICE. Don’t hope for it.

Reply to Marcus Aurelius knew

Sadly that will be the case. No-one will ever be held to account for the scamdemic. There are too many powerful people involved in creating it ….. and too many bought and paid “little helpers.”