Thu Oct 21, 2021 – 6:28 am EDT
Editor’s note: The details of Pfizer’s contracts could help to at least partly explain the current imposition of draconian COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the Dominican Republic as reported in recent articles.
(Children’s Health Defense) – Pfizer has used its position as a producer of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccines to “silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk, and maximize profits” through secret contracts with countries around the world, according to a Public Citizen report published Tuesday.
“Behind closed doors, Pfizer wields its power to extract a series of concerning concessions from governments,” the report’s author Zain Rizvi, law and policy researcher at Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program, said in a statement. “The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep calling the shots.”
The new report begins by noting February reporting about accusations of Pfizer — an American pharmaceutical giant that developed its mRNA vaccine with the German firm BioNTech — “bullying” Latin American governments during contract negotiations for doses.
Public Citizen obtained unredacted term sheets, drafts or final agreements between Pfizer and Albania, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the European Commission and Peru. The consumer rights advocacy group also examined redacted contracts with Chile, the U.S., and the U.K.
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