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Amid ongoing reports concerning the integrity of Big Pharma, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he plans to investigate companies\u2019 potential manipulation and misrepresentation of Covid vaccine trial data.<\/p>\n
Paxton\u2019s investigation centers around Texas\u2019s\u00a0Deceptive Trade Practice Act<\/a>\u00a0according to his announcement to the\u00a0<\/em>New York Post<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Under 17.46(b)(24) of the DPTA, Paxton must answer two questions to determine whether Big Pharma companies acted unlawfully.<\/p>\n 1) \u00a0 Did the company fail to disclose known information concerning its Covid vaccine?<\/p>\n 2) \u00a0 Was that failure intended to induce the public into getting the product?<\/p>\n Alex Berenson\u2019s recent report on Moderna\u2019s vaccine trials provides a case study that indicates affirmative answers to both questions.<\/p>\n The Case Against Moderna<\/strong><\/p>\n Did Moderna fail to disclose known information concerning its Covid vaccine?<\/p>\n Last week, Berenson\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Moderna \u201chid serious side effects\u201d when it published its clinical trial results for the Covid vaccines.<\/p>\n Moderna opened its vaccine (\u201cP201\u201d) trials with 600 volunteers in May 2020 and published its results in February 2021.\u201cNo serious adverse effects were observed,\u201d the company boasted at the top of\u00a0the report<\/a>. But that was a lie.<\/p>\n \u201cIn all, during the placebo-controlled phase of the trial\u2026 seven of the 400 healthy volunteers who received a two-shot regimen of Moderna\u2019s vaccine suffered side effects,\u201d Berenson writes. \u201cThe problems included a heart attack and two miscarriages. In comparison, the 200 people who received a placebo shot without any mRNA had\u00a0no<\/em>\u00a0serious side effects.\u201d<\/p>\n After the trial ended, more participants came forward with devastating results, including an additional miscarriage and several cardiovascular issues. In total, 14 volunteers reported serious side effects.<\/p>\n The company never issued a public statement disclosing the true results of the trial. As Berenson writes, \u201cThe company never updated the Vaccine paper with any of these reports. On December 30, 2022 the federal\u00a0clinicaltrials.gov<\/a>\u00a0website quietly posted final safety data from P201, including all the serious adverse event reports.\u201d<\/p>\n Moderna failed to disclose known information from the trials for 22 months. In the interim, the United States administered over\u00a0200 million doses<\/a>\u00a0of the Moderna mRNA vaccine while the true results remained concealed. Those 22 months were highly lucrative for the emerging pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n Was that failure of disclosure tended to induce the public into getting the vaccines?<\/p>\n From the time of Moderna\u2019s Covid vaccine trials in 2020 to the release of the true results at the end of 2022, the company\u2019s revenue increased by over 2,000 percent.<\/p>\n In 2020, Moderna\u2019s total revenue was $800 million. In 2021, Moderna published the \u201cno serious adverse effects\u201d paper, and the\u00a0company\u2019s revenue<\/a>\u00a0skyrocketed to $18.5 billion. Over 95 percent of that revenue came from the Covid vaccine.<\/p>\n In 2022, Moderna\u00a0made<\/a>\u00a0$18.4 billion from the Covid vaccine alone. That year, CEO Stephane Bancel\u00a0received a $926 million \u201cgolden parachute\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 15 percent more than the entire annual revenue of the company before the trial began.<\/p>\n When the true results came out at the end of 2022, it was too late. Millions of Americans had already received Moderna shots and been denied the right to learn the truth about the product they were taking.<\/p>\n Berenson\u2019s report indicates that Paxton has a strong case against Moderna under the DPTA. The company concealed known adverse effects from the product that accounted for 95 percent of its revenue. Meanwhile, the most powerful forces in the country \u2013 including\u00a0the White House<\/a>,\u00a0the news media<\/a>, and\u00a0pharmaceutical companies<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 pushed Americans to get the product by insisting that it was \u201csafe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n Would pregnant women have been less likely to receive the shots had they known that there was a greater chance of miscarriage? Would men have been less inclined to rush to a vaccine center had they known that the product increased their risk of death from cardiovascular complications? If not, then why would Moderna conceal the information for 22 months while it raked in $40 billion in revenue from Covid vaccines?<\/p>\n Suing vaccine makers is notoriously difficult by design. Alone among private producers, they are indemnified against nearly all harm thanks to\u00a0government privilege<\/a>. That makes them mostly off-limits for legal liability from vaccine injuries. Eliminate that provision and the companies would not likely even be in business at all, which tells you all you need to know. However, deceptive claims are a separate issue. Finally we might have here a perfectly crafted legal position to hold these run-amuk companies accountable.<\/p>\n