After a year of Corona, most of us are grateful to the pharmaceutical industry for delivering vaccines that will hopefully enable us to return to “normality”.
And yet, with all this gratitude, we should not forget that the big pharmaceutical companies have in the past not shied away from misrepresentations, deceit and even bribery to increase their profits. This time – with billions upon billions available – is unlikely to be different. We all remember Jeremiah’s leopard and his spots.
There seems to be one exception: AstraZeneca @ ca. $3 per dose, has announced that, during the pandemic, it would not profit from the sale of its vaccine. This, most likely annoys the rest of the pack, such as Pfizer (Biontech) and Moderna, whose vaccines are offered @ ca. $20-30 per dose.
It is against that background, that I take in the information we are being fed about the risks connected with the AstraZeneca vaccine. Can one really rule out the possibility that cleverly packaged panic-making information about blood clots here-and-there is being fed to journalists by lobbyists acting for AstraZeneca’s competitors? NO. What we lack is true investigative journalism and some good analysis. Not just panic-making.
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