{"id":41922,"date":"2022-11-13T21:54:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T10:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41922"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:28:53","slug":"were-all-one-big-happy-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41922","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All One Big Happy Family!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A PR company that represents\u00a0Pfizer\u00a0and\u00a0Moderna\u00a0has staff &#8217;embedded&#8217; in the\u00a0CDC&#8217;s vaccine division, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">New York-based firm Weber Shandwick has been responsible for elevating Pfizer&#8217;s profile since at least 2006. It partnered with Moderna in June this year, after the small biotech firm became a household name following its vaccine success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet questions are being raised about a possible conflict of interest as it emerged the company was hired by the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the pandemic to boost its &#8216;health communication&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PR company that represents\u00a0Pfizer\u00a0and\u00a0Moderna\u00a0has staff &#8217;embedded&#8217; in the\u00a0CDC&#8217;s vaccine division, it has emerged. New York-based firm Weber Shandwick has been responsible for elevating Pfizer&#8217;s profile since at least 2006. It partnered with Moderna in June this year, after the small biotech firm became a household name following its vaccine success. Yet questions are being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re All One Big Happy Family!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56476,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922\/revisions\/56476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}