{"id":222201,"date":"2020-12-04T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222201"},"modified":"2020-12-07T07:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T07:39:47","slug":"pfizer-given-protection-from-legal-action-by-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222201","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer given protection from legal action by UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hannah Godfrey \u2013 City AM Dec 3, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The government has granted Covid-19 manufacturer Pfizer a legal indemnity protecting it from being sued, enabling its coronavirus vaccine to be rolled out across the country as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed the company has been given an indemnity protecting it from legal action as a result of any problems with the vaccine, the Independent reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in the UK, with roll out planned for early next week, becoming the first Western country to approve a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>NHS staff providing the vaccine, as well as manufacturers of the drug, are also protected.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference with journalists on Wednesday, Ben Osborn, Pfizer\u2019s UK managing director, refused to explain why the company needed an indemnity.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe\u2019re not actually disclosing any of the details around any of the aspects of that agreement and specifically around the liability clauses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around 50 hospital hubs around England will start offering the Pfizer vaccine to patients and staff in care homes from next week.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS will also start sending letters out next week inviting vulnerable members of the population to go and get a vaccine from a designated hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer\/Biontech vaccine, which comes in packs of 975 doses, will first be given to the most vulnerable Brits, going down the generational chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/pfizer-given-protection-from-legal-action-by-uk-government\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In relation to the above we recently recieved the following email:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dear Sir or Madam,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The British Government is quietly advertising online for a tender for AI software to deal with:<br \/>\n\u2018\u2026the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs).\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&amp;src=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri%3DTED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML%26src%3D0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607111988323000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-zF7Xk8PYUh_9aV0FBbRbShmJ8Q\">https:\/\/ted.europa.eu\/udl?uri=<wbr \/>TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN<wbr \/>:HTML&amp;src=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c&#8230;\u00a0the MHRA recognises that its planned procurement process for the SafetyConnect programme, including the AI tool, would not have concluded by vaccine\u00a0launch. Leading to a inability to effectively monitor adverse reactions to a Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Events unforeseeable \u2014 the Covid-19 crisis is novel and developments in the search of a Covid-19 vaccine have not followed any predictable pattern so far.\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Name and address of the contractor<br \/>\nOfficial name: Genpact (UK) Ltd<br \/>\nTown: London<br \/>\nNUTS code:\u00a0UK UNITED KINGDOM<br \/>\nCountry: United Kingdom<br \/>\nThe contractor is an SME: no<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Because it\u2019s such an emergency owing to false positive tests, as now highlighted by just about every qualified person heard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is incomprehensible stupidity or outright evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Neither can be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Please print and make known. Please do not use my name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">All the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With much media fanfare, the UK government has authorised a Covid-19 vaccine. However, given far less prominence is the fact that the makers, Pfizer, have also been granted indemnity from prosecution for any harm it may cause   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":222225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222227,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222201\/revisions\/222227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}