{"id":4829,"date":"2023-12-02T06:47:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T04:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2023-12-02T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T04:47:26","slug":"pfizer-sued-by-texas-over-covid-vaccine-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4829","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer sued by Texas over COVID vaccine effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pfizer is being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drug maker of misrepresenting the effectiveness of the widely used COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmaceutical giant used misleading statistics to promote the vaccine and sought to \u201cintimidate\u201d anyone who questioned the product, according to the\u00a0lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton is focusing on a claim touted by Pfizer in 2020 that its Covid vaccine was 95% effective, leaving the impression that the vaccine \u201cwould end the coronavirus pandemic and lift the omnipresent veil of fear and uncertainty from an anxious public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to Pfizer\u2019s public statements, however, the pandemic did not end,\u201d Paxton said in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>And the pandemic got worse even after people started taking the vaccine, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said this claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data, and vaccine recipients&#8217; &#8220;absolute risk reduction&#8221; showed that the vaccine was just 0.85% effective.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer is being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drug maker of misrepresenting the effectiveness of the widely used COVID-19 vaccine. The pharmaceutical giant used misleading statistics to promote the vaccine and sought to \u201cintimidate\u201d anyone who questioned the product, according to the\u00a0lawsuit. Paxton is focusing on a claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}