Port Pfizer? False that the pharmacist hides the vaccine data

On social networks, they assure that Pfizer acknowledged before the European Parliament that the COVID vaccine was never tested to stop the transmission of the virus before being put on sale, so they conclude that “getting vaccinated to protect others has always been a lie. “. But it is misinformation.

They took out of context the statements of Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international markets, who replied to a member of the European Parliament that she did not know if the pharmaceutical company’s COVID vaccine prevented transmission of the virus before entering the market in 2020.

The answer was viralized by users in the networks, without contextualizing that in reality when Pfizer advertised its vaccine to enter the market and never claimed to “prevent transmission of the virus”.

In the conclusions of its clinical trials to obtain permission for emergency use, Pfizer only stated that it reduces severe symptoms in infected people. in order to reduce disease mortality.

In fact, none of the COVID vaccines currently in use have been able to guarantee that they serve to stop transmission to third parties.

As we told you in another note, the phrase used by the health authorities that invites you to get vaccinated to protect others, comes from the results of various studies showing that vaccinated people are contagious, but for fewer days than unvaccinated ones, which leads to a decrease in infections.

“Scandal: Pfizer acknowledges before the European Parliament that the Covid vaccine has never been tested to stop the transmission of the virus before being placed on the market”, is the text copied and pasted more than a thousand times on social networks. Users end up celebrating that they weren’t vaccinated and making sure “everything was suspicious from the start”.

Here we explain the details:

This is how disinformation was born.

On 10 October the Special Commission of the European Parliament, in charge of analyzing the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19, brought together the various pharmaceutical companies to question them on the purchases made and on the lack of transparency in the contracts signed with the various countries, after the Court of Auditors denounced the opacity in September.

Here you can listen to the session and choose simultaneous translation into Spanish.

In the session, Dutch MP Rob Ross questioned Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international markets, the following:

Was Pfizer’s Covid vaccine tested to stop the transmission (spread) of the virus before it was marketed? If not, clarify. And if so, are you willing to share the data with this committee?

To which the Pfizer representative replied:

Did we know that it prevents the virus from spreading among people when we put it on the market? We didn’t know.

Subsequently, Deputy Ross posted a tweet about the response to conclude that “getting vaccinated for others has always been a lie, the only purpose was the COVID passport: to force people to get vaccinated.”

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In the COVID hearing, #Pfizer the director admits: #vaccine it has never been tested on transmission prevention.

“Getting vaccinated for others” has always been a lie.

The sole purpose of the #Covid passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.

The world needs to know. Share this video! ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/su1WqgB4dO

– Rob Roos MEP 🇳🇱 (@Rob_Roos) 11 October 2022

Ross’s post has more than 176,000 shares and 246,000 likes, leading users to conclude that “the truth has finally been revealed, the government forced us to vaccinate without sustenance”.

The conclusion of the vaccine project was not that it prevented transmission

Pfizer never specifies in its conclusions that it stops transmission of the virus, but rather that its vaccine provides up to 95% protection by blocking symptoms during infection and reducing severity or mortality.

This can be reviewed in the series of provisional recommendations released in January 2021 by the World Health Organization (WHO) when Pfizer vaccine use was approved for emergency use and what the vaccine can do when applied should be transparent.

The recommendations detail that the Pfizer vaccine is a messenger RNA and that by placing two doses with a difference of 21 days, 95% protection “against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection” can be achieved.

He also warns that “there are not yet sufficient data on the effect of the vaccine on transmission, so non-pharmacological interventions such as the use of masks, physical distancing, hand washing and other measures must be maintained”.

In addition to what has been published by the pharmaceutical company and by the international health authorities, the technical guide The Mexican for its application does not mention anything about “avoid passing on to others”, but only details the levels of protection that can be achieved with its application.

Being vaccinated serves to protect others; the likelihood of contagion decreases

as we tell you in this noteSince 2021, several studies have been conducted showing that although the vaccine does not eliminate the likelihood of infecting others, it does reduce it.

For example, there are various studies showing that vaccinated people are contagious for fewer days than unvaccinated people, as their defenses clear the virus earlier.

According to a study carried out with the delta variant and published in New England Journal of Medicinevaccinated people clear the virus from their bodies in about five days, compared to seven days for unvaccinated people.

In a sample of researchers from the University of Oxford, yet to be examined, close contacts of vaccinated people were less infected than those of unvaccinated people.

And among vaccinated people, it was found that people who received two doses (of any vaccine) transmitted less to their contacts than people who received only one dose.

In short, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international markets, hasn’t made any statements showing “hidden truth”. To enter the market under emergency conditions, the pharmaceutical company said it offered up to 95% protection to avoid severe symptoms or death, but did not say it would stop transmission.