Tuesday he expects to request (experimental) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September. Under his plan, an EUA request for ages six months to 2 years would follow in the fourth quarter. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cPfizer and its partner BioNTech currently are waiting for an FDA decision on an EUA for adolescents ages 12-15 years.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nAnd Here is a List of Lawsuits Related to Sixteen Pfizer Drugs That Were FDA-approved Before Long-term Safety Studies Were Completed<\/strong><\/p>\n(And the CDC Wonders Why There is Such a Thing as \u201cBig Pharma\/Big Vaccine-hesitancy\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\nList Collated by Gary G. Kohls, MD \u2013 March 10, 2021 \u2013 (1041 words)<\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer is <\/strong>one of the largest multinational drug companies on the planet \u2013 and one of the five largest vaccine manufacturers (the other four are Sanofi, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson $ Johnson.\u00a0 AstraZeneca is # 10). Pfizer<\/strong> has faced thousands of lawsuits for fraudulent marketing and medical injuries caused by some of its most profitable, drugs.<\/p>\nPfizer has also set a record for the largest fine paid for a health care fraud<\/strong> lawsuit<\/strong> filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Pfizer paid $2.3 billion<\/strong> in fines, penalties, and settlement for illegal marketing claims.<\/p>\nHere is a partial list of 13 of Pfizer\u2019s<\/strong> most dangerous, most litigated, most potentially lethal drugs. (NOTE:\u00a0 If any reader had adverse effects to any of the following Pfizer drugs, he\/she might want to consult an attorney).<\/p>\nCelebrex, <\/strong><\/p>\nBextra<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nGeodon, <\/strong><\/p>\nZyvox, <\/strong><\/p>\nLyrica<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nNeurontin<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nProtonix<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nPrempro<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nChantix<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nDepo-Testosterone<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nZoloft<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nEffexor<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/p>\nFeldene, <\/strong><\/p>\nViagra, <\/strong><\/p>\nLipitor, <\/strong><\/p>\nZithromax, <\/strong><\/p>\nEtc.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCelebrex and Bextra<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPrizer<\/strong> promoted its two COX-2 pain relievers Celebrex<\/strong> and Bextra<\/strong> which generated 7000 lawsuits and a $894 million settlement.<\/strong> Both medications were me-too drugs similar to Merck\u2019s<\/strong> infamous Vioxx<\/strong>, which caused 50,000 lawsuits because of cardiovascular deaths and injuries. Merck settled most of the cases with a $4.85 billion settlement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nGeodon, Zyvox, and Lyrica<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer paid $1 billion<\/strong> to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company illegally promoted four drugs \u2013 Bextra<\/strong>; Geodon,<\/strong> an anti-psychotic drug; Zyvox<\/strong>, an antibiotic; and Lyrica<\/strong>, an anti-epileptic drug \u2013 and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nNeurontin<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer paid out $142 million<\/strong> for committing racketeering fraud in the marketing of Neurontin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nProtonix<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nAs part of a larger group of proton pump inhibitor lawsuits, Pfizer faced a number of Protonix<\/strong> lawsuits after it acquired drug company Wyeth who had been accused of marketing the drug for unapproved uses. In 2013, Pfizer agreed to pay $55 million<\/strong> to settle illegal marketing claims but the company may still be facing lawsuits for kidney injuries<\/strong> caused by the medication.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPrempro<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nNearly 10,000 Prempro lawsuits<\/strong> were filed by women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer<\/strong>. The lawsuits were largely settled by 2012 for about $1 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nChantix<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer faced about 3,000 Chantix lawsuits<\/strong> filed by people who claimed they experienced suicidal thoughts and psychiatric disorders<\/strong> after using Chantix<\/strong> for smoking cessation. Pfizer set aside about $288 million<\/strong> and at least some of the cases were settled.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nDepo-Testosterone<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nThousands of cases<\/strong> of medical injury due to testosterone replacement therapy have been filed. Other drug companies have paid $ billions to settle their cases, however some Pfizer testosterone lawsuits were dismissed.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nZoloft<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nAbout 250 Zoloft lawsuits<\/strong> were filed, claiming Pfizer actively promoted the use of Zoloft to pregnant women<\/strong> despite knowledge of birth defect risks<\/strong> from their research. These cases were largely dismissed in 2016 when a judge concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove a link between birth defects and Zoloft<\/strong> use.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nEffexor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nEffexor was a medication originally produced by Wyeth<\/strong> which has also been the cause of multiple lawsuits. People who filed Effexor<\/strong> lawsuits claimed that it caused birth defects<\/strong>, and separately, suicidal thoughts and behaviors<\/strong>. In September 2015, Effexor <\/strong>lawsuits were dismissed but may have been eligible to refile.<\/p>\nLipitor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer\u2019s<\/strong> drug that lowers cholesterol (but only minimally decreases heart attack risk) but causes serious muscle damage, diabetes and other unforeseen health defects has generated billions of dollars of lawsuits.<\/p>\nXeljanz<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nPfizer\u2019s <\/strong>arthritis and ulcerative colitis drug was only belatedly acknowledged by Pfizer <\/strong>to cause cancer, serious cardiovascular events and venous thromboembolism (such as pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis). Many lawsuits are in progress.<\/p>\nFeldene; Viagra, Zithromax, etc<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEnvironmental Pollution<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\nIn 1971 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked Pfizer<\/strong> to end its long-time practice of dumping industrial wastes from its plant in Groton, Connecticut in the Long Island Sound<\/strong>. The company was reported to be disposing of about 1 million gallons of waste each year<\/strong> by that method.<\/p>\nIn 1991 Pfizer agreed to pay $3.1 million<\/strong> to settle EPA charges that the company seriously damaged the Delaware River by failing to install pollution-control equipment at one of its plants in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\nIn 1994 Pfizer agreed to pay $1.5 million<\/strong> as part of a consent decree with the EPA in connection with its dumping at a toxic waste site in Rhode Island.<\/p>\nIn 1998 Pfizer agreed to pay a civil penalty of $625,000<\/strong> for environmental violations discovered at its research facilities in Groton, Connecticut.<\/p>\nIn 2002 New Jersey fined Pfizer<\/strong> $538,000<\/strong> for failing to properly monitor wastewater discharged from its plant in Parsippany.<\/p>\nIn 2003, shortly after Pfizer<\/strong> acquired Pharmacia<\/strong>, the company (along with Monsanto<\/strong>) agreed to pay some $700 million<\/strong> to settle a lawsuit over the dumping of known-to-be-carcinogenic PCBs<\/strong> in Anniston, Alabama.<\/p>\nIn 2005 Pfizer<\/strong> agreed to pay $22,500<\/strong> to settle EPA claims that the company failed to properly notify state and federal officials of a 2002 chemical release from its plant in<\/strong> Groton that seriously injured several employees and necessitated a major emergency response.<\/p>\nAlso in 2005, Pfizer<\/strong> agreed to pay $46,250<\/strong> to settle charges that its Pharmacia & Upjohn<\/strong> operation had violated federal air pollution rules at its plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.<\/p>\nIn 2008 Pfizer<\/strong> agreed to pay a $975,000<\/strong> civil penalty to resolved federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act at its former manufacturing plant in Groton, Connecticut in the period from 2002 to 2005.<\/p>\nEnvironmental groups in New Jersey have criticized as inadequate a clean-up plan devised by Pfizer<\/strong> and the EPA for the American Cyanamid Superfund<\/strong> site in Bridgewater, which is considered one of the worst toxic waste sites in the country<\/strong>. Pfizer<\/strong> inherited responsibility for the clean-up through its 2009 purchase of Wyeth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nDr Gary G. Kohls lives in the USA and writes articles that deal with the dangers of fascism, corporatism, totalitarianism, militarism, racism, malnutrition, and Big Pharma\u2019s over-drugging and over-vaccinating agendas. In addition, his columns deal with cultural movements that threaten democracy, war, civility, health, freedom, the future of the children and the sustainability and livability of the planet.<\/p>\n
Dr Kohls is a past member of Mind Freedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a signatory to and\/or an advocate of the principles of the Great Barrington Declaration, the World Doctors Alliance and Americas Front Line Doctors.<\/p>\n
Dr Kohls practiced holistic medicine and preventive psychiatry for the last decades of his medical career, largely helping the psychologically-wounded, over-medicated survivors of psychiatry that had often been mis-diagnosed and over-medicated with cocktails of neurotoxic, frequently addictive psychiatric drugs that had never been tested for safety when used in combinations.<\/p>\n
His Duty to Warn columns have been re-published around the world for the last decade. Dr Kohls frequently writes about Big Vaccine\u2019s over-vaccination agendas and Big Medicine\u2019s over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}