URGENT: Big Pharma wins again
Dr. Vinay Prasad is out as the FDA's chief medical's officer. Not coincidentally, stocks of drug companies are soaring.
The end was inevitable.
Just today, I wrote about Dr. Vinay Prasad’s decision to challenge Moderna last month over its (worthless) mRNA flu shot. Prasad is the chief medical officer of the Food and Drug Administration. His job is to ensure medicines are safe and effective.
Moderna, lest you’ve forgotten, is an mRNA biotechnology company with a $20 billion market value. Its job is to sell mRNA-based “vaccines” (they’re not vaccines, their effectiveness is measured in months) and make money for its shareholders and executives.
It wasn’t a fair fight. Moderna won — last month and even more completely today.
This afternoon, following a pressure campaign that included hit pieces from reporters who in better days would have stood with Prasad, Prasad said he would leave the FDA at the end of April. Moderna stock popped in after-hours trading on the news. Shares of Uniqure, another company Prasad recently challenged, rose even more.
I saw Big Pharma’s power up close in 2021 when Pfizer and Biden White House officials joined to force Twitter to ban me. Now, for his blunt honesty, Prasad has been steamrolled too. He could have tried to work within the system and tried to make incremental change, but that wasn’t his style. For better or worse, he went out with his boots on.
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(Still standing. Stand with me.)
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Still, Prasad’s departure is a sad reminder of the powerful institutional forces that make American medicine in general and pharmaceuticals in particular so tough to fix.
As The Wire’s Omar reminded us all:
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Adios, Vinay.
You tried.
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Today’s story:
This upsets me more than I can say. My husband was hospitalized in 2022 for sepsis, so they said. Then he tested positive”positive “ for “COVID”. So all bets were off. I wasn’t allowed into the ER because of no jab. He was admitted. I wasn’t allowed into the ICU to visit him on a Sunday, after testing negative. On Monday I went to see him in a regular room was told by a screaming “nurse” “ You can’t go in there! He has covid!” After much arguing I left as I realized going to jail would help no one. The hospital told me NOTHING. We are with Kaiser, he was not in a Kaiser contracted hospital, so they wouldn’t tell Kaiser anything. After much bullying and lies they convinced him remdisavir would save him, he had NO symptoms of covid. After the administration of the $39,000, remdisavir he developed a major bleed and Afib. He almost died, not that I would know, they wouldn’t talk to me or Kaiser. What a freaking mess. I HATE big Pharma and the government. BTW my husband refuses to sue. He’s never been the same.
Vinay Prasad was one of the only sane voices during Covid. I tried to listen to every podcast he put out of was interviewed on just for my own sanity. It’s really distressing that pharma was still able to get to him in the only administration in my lifetime that is actually giving oxygen to legitimate concerns about the industry.