{"id":260670,"date":"2023-06-04T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=260670"},"modified":"2023-06-04T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:42:57","slug":"as-enthusiasm-for-covid-vaccines-wanes-and-millions-of-unwanted-doses-expire-german-press-finally-starts-scrutinising-contracts-between-big-pharma-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=260670","title":{"rendered":"As Enthusiasm For Covid Vaccines Wanes and Millions of Unwanted Doses Expire, German Press Finally Starts Scrutinising Contracts Between Big Pharma and Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0EUGYPPIUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know it\u2019s not the repudiation we hoped for, but the widening displeasure over the deeply idiotic and imprudent contracts that the European Union negotiated with Pfizer and BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine doses says a lot about where the vaccinators find themselves, politically and socially, at this late hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That erstwhile pillar of the vaccinator-industrial complex, the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em>, has revealed a markedly reduced enthusiasm for the vaccines and their procurement in the past months. After attacking the lack of transparency<\/a> surrounding the contract negotiations, they\u2019ve found the energy to deplore all the worthless vaccine that our health ministers have purchased<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Germany, by the end of March 2023, around 83 million COVID-19 vaccine doses expired and were thrown away by with the federal government alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has informed a private session of Bundestag budget committee of these developments \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These figures raise many questions. Did Germany, especially under Lauterbach\u2019s predecessor Jens Spahn (CDU), but also during Lauterbach\u2019s tenure during the fight against the pandemic, order too much vaccine? Could they have avoided these costs, which reach into the billions? Or did the state have no choice, because it was not foreseeable how many people would get vaccinated, and how many injections would be needed for effective protection in the longer run?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What devastating answers all of these questions have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In any case, the EU and the Federal Republic of Germany have purchased far more vaccine than is needed now. As the Ministry of Health informed the Bundestag, Germany has donated 120 million vaccine doses to other countries. Even after these donated doses left the central warehouse, further doses nevertheless expired \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry explains that additional doses have expired \u201cat the various stages\u201d of the supply chain. This refers to doses shipped to wholesalers, pharmacies and doctors\u2019 offices. These parties are in turn responsible for \u201cproper disposal\u201d, the ministry explains. They did not provide figures on how many doses had expired and been destroyed by these wholesalers, pharmacies and medical practices. It is possible that these numbers have not been collected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words: The 83 million figure represents a floor; nobody actually knows or is all that eager to tabulate how many doses have been thrown away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by the SZ<\/em>, the Ministry of Health did not say how much the expired and destroyed doses at the federal level cost. Publicly available data nevertheless supports the assumption that the costs to the taxpayer\u2026 are in the billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that may not be all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through the start of 2023, the federal government had ordered a total of 672 million doses for 13.1 billion Euros, generally via the EU. Each jab therefore costs on average just under 20 Euros \u2026 According to the Ministry of Health, by the start of May, around 192 million doses had been injected in Germany, and some of the deliveries are still outstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a year ago, the Berlin-based newspaper Tagesspiegel<\/em> asked whether Lauterbach was threatened with \u201cbillions in damages\u201d. At that time, it was already becoming apparent that vaccine could remain unused. In mid-2022, 3.9 million vaccine doses had expired. By the beginning of 2023, there were already 36.6 million vaccine doses. And now, only five months later, it is already 83 million. By the end of last year, approximately 54 million doses had expired and in the first quarter of 2023, approximately 29 million doses had been destroyed, the ministry informed the Bundestag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possibly even more vaccine will have to be destroyed. As of the beginning of May, the Federal Government still has stores amounting to around 120 million doses. Their future is \u201cfraught with uncertainty\u201d and depends, among other things, on the future course of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health informed the Bundestag. The Federal Government still intends to give \u201cunneeded vaccine\u201d to other countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not a single country anywhere on earth can be found to take this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To avoid having to destroy more vaccine, the EU has now negotiated a partial cancellation of supply contracts with the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer. A \u201ccancellation fee\u201d is due for this, Lauterbach informed the Bundestag. According to reports, Lauterbach did not give a figure. The cancellation fees for unwanted vaccine is likely to reach costs in Germany alone of hundreds of millions of Euros.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While the details of the deal are officially secret, an outraged Polish health minister revealed<\/a> several weeks ago that Pfizer and BioNTech have demanded that EU countries pay 50% of the cost for every previously ordered yet unneeded vaccine dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the article there lurks this foul paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With early access to safe and effective vaccines, many lives have been saved and millions of people have been protected from serious illness. The economic costs of the pandemic have also been reduced and the \u201cimpact on social life has been noticeably mitigated\u201d. The vaccine surplus is a consequence of this strategy. This is how the Ministry of Health justified the bulk purchases in the Bundestag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been over this many times at the plague chronicle, but as long as politicians and the press continue to indulge in these hollow excuses, I\u2019ll keep repeating myself: It\u2019s strange indeed that enthusiasm for these SaFE aNd EfFeCtIvE vaccines should have plummeted in precise inverse correlation to public experience with them. You\u2019d almost think that the more the vaccinators were allowed to vaccinate, the more everybody decided the vaccines weren\u2019t for them after all. This is hardly the response you\u2019d expect to such miraculous, life-saving, side effect-free products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A great many journalists, bureaucrats, politicians and ordinary people were complicit in the excesses of the past several years, and as the policies of the pandemic continue to sour, they\u2019ll do anything but talk about it. This more than anything is the reason for the deafening silence surrounding all of these matters. What critique there is will increasingly attach itself to isolated matters, such as school closures, and to specific initiatives in which few participated directly, such as the buying of vaccines. They\u2019ll do everything they can to assign blame in those few areas, where they can\u2019t be blamed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared<\/a> on Eugyppius\u2019s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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