Did Pfizer design their vaccine to turn the COVID-19 pandemic into an endemic, so they can make A LOT MORE money?
Find out what’s going on, and what the facts really are!
Was Pfizer Vaccine Designed To Make COVID-19 Endemic?
A WhatsApp message linking to a Kim Iversen video posted on 17 March 2021 has gone viral on WhatsApp, with this alarming warning :
The truth is out. Pfizer Executive admits that they their vaccine is not designed to end the pandemic but to turn it into an endemic so that the demand of their vaccines will continue forever and give them the opportunity to make a lot of money selling their vaccine. Once the pandemic becomes an endemic, just like the flu, all those who have already been vaccinated will need to continue to receive a booster every year or so.
Now that you are up to speed, let’s see what the facts really are!
Pfizer Vaccine Designed To Make COVID-19 Endemic? Bullshit!
We watched the Kim Iversen episode where she made those claims, so you wouldn’t have to.
Now, let’s address the claims in the viral message and her video one by one, so you have the FACTS.
Claim #1 : Pfizer Caught Saying COVID-19 Will Turn Endemic
Verdict : FALSE
Caught? Pfizer CFO and Executive VP of Global Supply, Frank A. D’Amelio openly said this in a virtual global healthcare conference, and it was reported publicly.
The company anticipates a “significant opportunity” for its vaccine “from a demand perspective” and “from a pricing perspective” as it shifts “from pandemic to endemic”.
How is that the definition of “caught” when he publicly made those comments?
That’s just Kim Iversen trying to hoodwink you into thinking that there is something nefarious afoot.
The truth is scientists across the world believe that SARS-CoV-2 will likely become an endemic virus, as this Nature survey from February 2021 shows.
Claim #2 : Pfizer Excited COVID-19 Will Turn Endemic
Verdict : FALSE
Kim Iversen also claimed that Pfizer is excited that COVID-19 will turn endemic.
Nowhere in the article (which you can read here) was it mentioned that Pfizer executives were excited about the pandemic becoming an endemic situation.
The truth is he was merely telling an analyst that there is an opportunity for Pfizer to increase their vaccine prices as demand drops when COVID-19 pandemic shifts into an endemic situation.
And while Kim Iversen makes it sound like an endemic situation is what Pfizer is aiming for, it is not something any pharmaceutical company is capable of.
The truth is our refusal to quickly vaccinate ourselves will be the reason why COVID-19 could end up becoming endemic.
Claim #3 : Pfizer COMIRNATY Was Developed At The Behest Of The US Government
Verdict : FALSE
Kim Iversen claimed that the Pfizer COMIRNATY (BNT162b2) vaccine was developed at the behest of the US government.
The truth is the BNT162b2 vaccine was developed by BioNTech SE – a German company, long before the Trump Administration came up with Operation Warp Speed.
And here is the zinger – Pfizer and BioNTech declined to join Operation Warp Speed, and BioNTech was funded by the German government to a tune of $445 million.
The BionTech COMIRNATY vaccine was really created in Germany by Germans of Turkish descent, and funded by German money. The US government had ZERO involvement.
Claim #4 : Big Pharma Makes MORE Money In COVID-19 Endemic
Verdict : FALSE
At around the 5:53 mark, Kim claimed that Big Pharma hopes that COVID-19 doesn’t end, so that they can make money off these vaccines.
By preventing COVID-19 using vaccines, Big Pharma actually loses out on a lot of money that could be made treating patients with COVID-19.
Think of how much money we already spent on ventilators, and expensive drugs with very limited effect like baricitinib and remdesivir.
Big Pharma stands to make MORE MONEY if vaccines did not exist, or were delayed.
She also does not understand that there are far fewer infections in an endemic.
So yes, Big Pharma may make more money from their vaccines, but they will lose a lot more money that could have been made from treating COVID-19.
Claim #5 : Big Pharma Has No Desire To Cure COVID-19
Verdict : FALSE
In a rambling monologue, that goes off-the-rail at certain points, Kim claimed at around the 5:55 mark that Big Pharma has no desire to cure COVID-19, AIDS, and cancer.
She should stop talking about medicine since she knows so little about it.
Vaccines are NEVER designed to cure a disease. They are designed to PREVENT the disease from occurring in the first place.
That is why we take the COVID-19 vaccine before we get it, instead of after – so we have a better chance of preventing it!
Claim #6 : Big Pharma Didn’t Even Try To End COVID-19
Verdict : FALSE
In her rambling monologue, Kim then asked, did Big Pharma even try to end COVID-19?
Seriously? Did she not read the news, and see how many vaccine candidates were developed? Or how many potential therapeutics were investigated?
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were developed and certified for use in less than a year after the pandemic began, and they offered 94%~95% protection against COVID-19.
Why don’t Kim tell us what SHE did to end COVID-19? What did ANYONE ELSE do to end COVID-19? Who else does she believe would be better at ending COVID-19?
Claim #7 : You Can Still Spread COVID-19 After Vaccination
Verdict : MISLEADING
Kim then claimed that those who were vaccinated must continue to wear face masks and socially distance themselves because they can still spread COVID-19.
That’s misleading because the advice was based on 3 reasons :
- it was partly precautionary in nature *,
- it takes weeks to build up your immunity after vaccination,
- the vaccine is not 100% efficacious, so a small number of people can still get COVID-19.
* The studies had not looked into whether the vaccines can prevent transmission, so they are advising vaccinated people to maintain the same precautions, JUST IN CASE.
It makes sense to tell people to continue taking precautions until herd immunity is achieved when the vast majority (80% or higher) of the population is vaccinated.
Claim #8 : Vaccinated People Have To Double Down On Precautions
Verdict : FALSE
At around the 8:50 mark, Kim surmised that the vaccines cannot protect others, and that people have to “double down” on precautions.
That is simply NOT TRUE. Those who are vaccinated against COVID-19 do NOT have to double down on their precautions.
I think it would be instructive at this point to share this picture of Jude Law in the movie, Contagion.
Claim #9 : Falling COVID-19 Cases Not Related To Vaccine
Verdict : FALSE
At 9:25, Kim claimed that no matter what the COVID-19 vaccination rate is like, the cases are falling.
She used the example of Israel with almost 100% vaccination rate, but has the same number of cases as Portugal, which only vaccinated 10% of their population.
She conveniently neglected to mention that Portugal has been under a nationwide lockdown since 15 January 2021! Probably because she earlier mocked lockdowns as useless…
On the other hand, Israel eased lockdown restrictions THREE TIMES since 7 February 2021, and the third stage easing even opened up tourist attractions and gatherings of up to 50 people!
Claim #10 : Test Vaccine Effectiveness By Jabbing People In Southern Hemisphere
Verdict : FALSE
At the 10:20 mark, Kim Iversen tells us that the only way to test the effectiveness of these vaccines is to start jabbing people in the Southern Hemisphere.
No, Kim. You perform what’s called a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled trial, which was what ALL certified vaccines have undergone!
CoronaVac was tested in Brazil, and Novovax NVX-CoV2373 was tested in Australia.
There are also ongoing trials of those vaccines and even Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines as they are deployed in other Southern Hemisphere countries like Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.
So Kim was either being extremely ignorant, or intentionally deceptive, about what’s being done to determine vaccine effectiveness.
Claim #11 : Australia + New Zealand Have Few / No Cases Because It’s Summer!
Verdict : FALSE
Kim Iversen apparently thinks that COVID-19 spread in Australia and New Zealand is super low or zero because it’s summer over there right now!
OMFG, the stupidity of her monologue on COVID-19 in summer and winter. Many tropical countries – where it’s hot and sunny most of the year – have been hit hard by COVID-19.
New Zealand has actually secured enough Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to fully vaccinate their population.
Australia, on the other hand, is vaccinating its population with the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines at the moment.
Claim #12 : New Zealand Stop Vaccinating Due To South African Variant
Verdict : FALSE
At 11:20, Kim claimed that New Zealand stopped vaccinating their population, because the vaccines won’t work on the South African variant.
That’s simply FALSE, because New Zealand continues to vaccinate its population using the Pfizer vaccine.
While the Pfizer vaccine appears to be less effective against the South African variant (B.1.351), it still offered “robust” protection against that variant.
She probably conflated New Zealand with South Africa, which halted their use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after a study showed “disappointing” results against the South African variant.
Claim #13 : Kim Iversen Is Not An Antivaxxer
Verdict : FALSE
Sorry, Kim, but you are an antivaxxer. You are actively telling people LIES about the COVID-19 vaccines!
You tell people that they should “know the data, know the research, know the reality“, when you yourself are either extremely IGNORANT about the data, research and reality, or are intentionally MISLEADING people about them.
Even when you talked people about your 94 year old grandmother, you point out that at her age, she isn’t concerned about “long term side effects”, suggesting that there are any.
Tell us, Kim – WHAT LONG TERM SIDE EFFECTS do these vaccines have???
Claim #14 : You Have To Keep Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
Verdict : FALSE
At 13:30, she claimed that they are saying that you have to keep getting it again and again, like the flu shot.
That is a POSSIBILITY that health officials have said, due to the fact that COVID-19 has spread so far and wide, and the fact that it’s mutating to form new variants.
However, we call it false, because that was NOT what the Pfizer executives are saying. Nowhere in that article did any Pfizer executive say that the vaccine must be “taken again and again and again”.
The truth is the SARS-CoV-2 virus has the opportunity to mutate to form new variants every time it infects someone.
So the best way to prevent mutations and an endemic situation is to VACCINATE EVERYONE as quickly as possible!
Claim #15 : COVID-19 Is Not Dangerous For Many People
Verdict : FALSE
At around the 13:50 point, she claims that like the flu, COVID-19 is not dangerous for many people. So perhaps that’s why most people feel like they don’t need the vaccine.
We should point out that as of 20 March 2021, 2.71 million people have died from COVID-19, and that number will not abate for many more months to come.
In comparison, influenza – the flu – kills between 290~650,000 people per year.
Based on those numbers, COVID-19 is, on average, at least 4.8X more likely to KILL you than the flu.
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