{"id":47984,"date":"2023-12-01T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47984"},"modified":"2023-12-01T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:34:04","slug":"texas-sues-pfizer-for-allegedly-misrepresenting-efficacy-of-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47984","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sues Pfizer for Allegedly Misrepresenting Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-47985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pfizer_CEO_Albert_Bourla-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla\" width=\"986\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pfizer_CEO_Albert_Bourla-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pfizer_CEO_Albert_Bourla-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pfizer_CEO_Albert_Bourla.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Nov. 30 sued Pfizer, alleging the company misrepresented how efficacious its COVID-19 vaccine was.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Pfizer misrepresented the results of a clinical trial run on its COVID-19 vaccine, according to\u00a0<a class=\"health-article-hover-class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24179146-texas-lawsuit-against-pfizer-over-covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the suit<\/a>, which was filed in Lubbock County court.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies,\u201d Mr. Paxton, a Republican, said in a statement. \u201cThe facts are clear. Pfizer did not tell the truth about their COVID-19 vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Pfizer and its partner BioNTech touted their vaccine as 95 percent effective against COVID-19 infection in\u00a0<a class=\"health-article-hover-class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pfizer.com\/news\/press-release\/press-release-detail\/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press releases<\/a>\u00a0and other statements, based on the trial.<\/div>\n<p>The trial was aimed at determining how many participants contracted COVID-19 with symptoms after receiving a vaccine, not COVID-19 overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/texas-sues-pfizer-for-allegedly-misrepresenting-efficacy-of-covid-19-vaccine-5539112\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/texas-sues-pfizer-for-allegedly-misrepresenting-efficacy-of-covid-19-vaccine-5539112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Nov. 30 sued Pfizer, alleging the company misrepresented how efficacious its COVID-19 vaccine was. Pfizer misrepresented the results of a clinical trial run on its COVID-19 vaccine, according to\u00a0the suit, which was filed in Lubbock County court. \u201cWe are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Texas Sues Pfizer for Allegedly Misrepresenting Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine&#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-47984","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\/47984","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=47984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47986,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47984\/revisions\/47986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}