Moderna has been rebuked by regulators after offering children £1,500 cash to test the Covid vaccine. The Telegraph has more.
The pharmaceutical company was ordered to pay £14,000 after it emerged that a representative had sent a WhatsApp message offering £1,500 to children to take part in Covid booster trials.
The U.K. Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) ruled that the offer amounted to “inappropriate financial inducement” and found the company had brought “discredit upon the pharmaceutical industry”.
The offer was made by a paediatrician from an unnamed NHS trust, inviting those aged between 12 and 18 years old to enrol in the NextCove trial, which was examining the efficacy of Moderna’s booster jab.
The inducement was made even though a research ethics committee had warned about the “large amount of money” that Moderna was offering participants, and voiced concern it was “much higher than would be considered a reasonable reimbursement”.
Moderna later amended the offer to just £185, but despite the change, at least one trial centre carried on offering the original sum.
Under The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations it is prohibited for incentives or financial inducements to be given to children or their parents.
In a statement, the PMCPA ruled: “The panel noted that the financial incentive offered within the unapproved WhatsApp message was never paid but considered that it might have encouraged participants to apply to take part.
“The panel considered that the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the particular circumstances of this trial, which involved the recruitment of children, meant that Moderna should have been especially cautious.
“On balance, the panel considered that this brought discredit upon and reduced confidence in the pharmaceutical industry.”
Moderna must provide a written undertaking that the practice will “cease forthwith” and pay for administrative costs.
However, critics said that the sanction was too small to be effective.
Esther McVey MP, formerly of the APPG on COVID-19 vaccine damage said: “A charge of £14,000 to a company that enjoyed a total revenue of $6.8 billion in 2023 is hardly likely to make them think twice before breaking the rules again.”
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“(B)ring discredit upon the pharmaceutical industry”? Don’t make me laugh.
The important question to ask is: how is the control group selected?
14k, whats that to Modena? a milliseconds worth of profit, they probably spent more on coffee in half a day.
Truly they are a disgusting operation, they view children as just another form of Lab rat, and as for the NHS trust promoting the thing, the CEO and those involved should be sacked and licenses revoked.
You’re talking at least £5 million to pay for the care of a severely vaccine injured child for life and severe consequences aren’t that rare and that is if you don’t croak it. Not really worth it I would suggest. But obviously people who are hard up don’t have a lot of choice. If I had taken one of these shots out of naivete and then found out the truth later I would be in a bad place mentally for all sorts of reasons. No amount of money could make up for that.
At least they were ‘rebuked’. All is well now then.
It’s an absolute disgrace denying access to services and facilities to those who refused the vaccination is very similar in my book. Any form of incentive or coercion should be sufficient to invalidate legally valid consent to any medical intervention, including vaccination.
The pandemic has ridden roughshod over the concept of bodily autonomy and the necessity for fully informed consent to any medical procedure, but the MSM has ignored this gross abuse of power and control.
The WHO pandemic preparedness proposals and the International Health Regulations would enshrine such abuse. Even if or when these are rejected some governments, including Northern Ireland, appear intent on denying citizens the right to control over their own bodies.