Texas attorney general SUES Pfizer for COVID vax lies

Eight months ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was investigating Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson for potentially lying to the public concerning the success of their respective COVID-19 vaccines.

Now, he’s filed a lawsuit.

Paxton’s lawsuit alleges that Pfizer violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, claiming that Pfizer “engaged in false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims.”

Three weeks after Paxton had initially announced the investigation, he was impeached.

“The first thing I did when I came back was I told my staff, ‘I want to get back on this,’ and we did,” Paxton tells Sara Gonzales.

What Paxton and his staff found was more than enough information to bring Pfizer down.

“Pfizer’s widespread representation that its vaccine possessed 95% efficacy against infection was highly misleading from day one,” the petition created by Paxton and his staff reads.

That 95% number “was only ever legitimate in a solitary, highly technical, and artificial way. It represented a calculation of the so-called relative risk reduction for vaccinated individuals in their clinical trial.”

Sara Gonzales is impressed.

“What you do here is that you’re using ... the FDA’s own publications against them by saying, ‘Actually, the FDA is the one who says that all of these relative risk reductions are a bunch of baloney,’” Gonzales says.

“It’s the truth,” Paxton says, continuing, “and the reality is, Pfizer didn’t even follow what they said, and it’s not even close to 95%.”

“If they used the numbers that the FDA said they should use, it was more like the vaccine was effective 1% or less of the time. That’s not an effective vaccine,” he adds.

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