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Colossal Wrongdoings by Big Pharma – Pfizer and COVID-19 Vaccine – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1095 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1095 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Charlotte May Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Shvets Production Preamble This is the last post this series about Big Pharma Wrongdoings. Not that these are the only cases, but these may be considered major in impact. Big Pharma keep doing less than desirable things and mostly get away with it also. Same thing is true in Pakistan where relations are also important along with the size to get away with wrongdoings. As I said in the beginning, the business is business and commercial considerations shall always take precedence over all other things. The Race for a Vaccine: Pfizer’s Global Sprint As the world grappled wi...

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #755 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: EVG Kowalievska Photo Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Photo Credit: Max Fischer An excerpt from a study published on 5th January 2023 in BMC Infectious Diseases Journal. The study was conducted in the Palestinian territory.  [Quote] Approximately one-third of participants reported no adverse effects after receiving the first, second, or third dose of the Pfizer vaccine, with 34%, 33.6%, and 32.5%, respectively. Participants who received more than one dose experienced more side effects. The most commonly reported adverse effects were ...

More Facts About Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: August de Richelieu Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich NINE PAGES REFERENCE There is much talk about 9 pages of side effects. This comes from Pfizer/FDA document titled ‘BNT 162b2 – 5.3.6 – Cumulative Analysis of Adverse Events Reports. The 9-pages are Appendi1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST. It is a lot of medical terminology which is not relevant for non-medical people. You may follow the link to see these adverse events. In all, it is a 38-page document (including 9 pages). I shall give some o...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #754 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Artem Podrez Photo Credit: Nandhu Kumar USFDA maintains that currently available data for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines shows that the vaccines are safe by and large. A CDC study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases says that self-reported data was reviewed by the researchers. Patients were advised to report adverse events on two systems: VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and v-safe tracker. Of the 340,522 reports made to VAERS, 92% were non-serious, 6.6% were serious, and 1.3% were deaths. The most common adv...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #753 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #753 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Yaroslav Danylchenko Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Before we look into the findings from the court mandated documents released by FDA, I would like to share some points from an article published in BMJ – British Medical Journal. It was written by the investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker and published in November 2021. The article is about revelations of poor practices at a contract research company which was carrying out Pfizer’s pivotal Covid-19 vaccine trial. CROs – Clinical Research Organizations are independent entities w...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Pat 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Google Images When COVID19 started from Wuhan, China and rapidly gripped the world, the talk of vaccine started immediately. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine took the lead in introducing its mRNA-based vaccine. It was closely followed by Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. China and Russia also delivered their conventional vaccines. The vaccines were administered worldwide, despite the initial inequality when the developed nations kept most of the stock for their own population. Some statistics are staggering. • 13....

COVID19 Updates – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #675 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #675 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: CDC Photo Credit: Cottonbro These posts are based on a July 28, 2022, article and the WHO living guidelines. The links appear at the end. Continued from Previous…… Paxlovid and other COVID19 therapeutics are widely available only in high-income countries. For example, in the United States, supply is more than demand, but in low-income countries, the access to these options is either severely restricted or altogether absent. The picture is the same as was seen in the case of COVID19 vaccines; the low-income countries were scrambling for vaccines while high-income c...

COVID19 Updates – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #674 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #674 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Eric McLean Photo Credit: Sarah Chai This post is based on a July 28, 2022 article and the WHO living guidelines. The links appear at the end. Epidemic is when a disease is temporarily present in a locality, spreading from person to person, but restricted to the locality. Pandemic is when a disease is prevalent in a country, continent, or the whole world.  Endemic is when a disease is persisting in a population or region, generally having settled to a relatively constant rate of occurrence. COVID19 has entered the endemic stage in many countries, including Un...

Pfizer Success – Use of Technology – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #673 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #673 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Lidia Fonseca COVID19 is fresh in our memories, so is the vaccines story. We received initially Chinese vaccines, Sinopharm and Sinovac which were not accepted even by UAE and Saudia. It worked well with us as we got it free from the government centers. Russian vaccine also became available at cost, and it also worked well. Chinese and Russian vaccines were based on standard technology.  Worldwide, Pfizer pioneered in developing the mRNA-based vaccine while Janssen and Astra Zeneca followed. The case of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is a case worth studying as it invol...

SARS-CoV-2 – Global Update and Impact – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #576 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #576. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. World Health Organization is publishing an update every day. Following information is derived from their report of 14 December 2021. • The weekly incidence of new cases and deaths declined during second week of December by 5% and 10% respectively.  • Still, there were 4 million new confirmed cases and about 47,000 new deaths.  • African region reported 111% increase in new cases last week. • As of 12 December, nearly 269 million confirmed cases and about 5.3 million deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. It may be safely assumed that...