Pfizer is sued by Texas over COVID vaccine claims
Pfizer is sued by Texas over COVID vaccine claims
Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine.
This all revolves around conservatives focusing on ARR instead of RRR numbers on vaccine efficacy. Here's a description I found of the difference from another article:
Let’s say a study enrolled 20,000 patients into the control group and 20,000 in the vaccine group. In that study, 200 people in the control group got sick and 0 people in the vaccine group got sick. Even though the vaccine efficacy would be a whopping 100%, the ARR would show that vaccines reduce the absolute risk by just 1% (200/20,000= 1%). For the ARR to increase to 20% in our example study with a vaccine with 100% efficacy, 4,000 of the 20,000 people in the control group would have to get sick (4,000/20,000= 20%).
I can’t believe I’m going to bat for Pfizer, but apparently I hate deliberate, selective ignorance even more than greed. Oh well.
Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data…
It was a GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS, you fucking morons. Millions of people died. Have you already forgotten how serious and urgent the situation was? Speedy availability of a vaccine was more important than lengthy, time-consuming tests.
Ask your god-king Trump. He’s the one who threw bushels of money at pharmaceutical companies and ordered them to solve the problem quickly.
They didn't forget; they never cared to begin with.
You’re probably right. Good catch.
Don't feel bad for going to bat for them. I have done some work for them. Pharm companies are True Neutral alignment. Condemn the things they do wrong, praise the things they do right.
So… the usual selective ignorance, like with the VARS data.
Well it is the anti-science group. Doubt math was a high priority for them.
Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data
I love how he says this as if most of the
countryworld wasn’t desperately waiting for something to come out as soon as possible, especially Republicans who were in their own tug of war of trying to cast it all as nonsense while wanting it available to get all these lazy people back to work in the office. They had to provide efficacy estimates. What the hell did he expect them to do?
Texas as a whole really doesn't understand a lot of things. I'm not saying they're stupid, but I'm also not not saying it.
Intentional ignorance is not stupidity, though it is stupid.
I hate that my tax dollars keep funding these jackasses. Can't wait to move out of this failed state.
And the magical thing about all of this is that even if the court takes the case and rules that there was no wrong doing. They will just chalk it up that it is because Gates, Soros, Rockefeller control the government and they never expected the trial to be "fair".
No matter what the outcome will be, it will prove that they were right in their eyes.
Thank god he didn’t get impeached
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Ken Paxton is nothing but pure trash. Absolute garbage human.