People Over Profits: End Big Pharma’s Vaccine Immunity

By Mat Staver

The eyes of many Americans were opened to Big Pharma’s abuses during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what many still don’t realize is that the pharmaceutical companies face no accountability for their vaccines — even when these vaccines cause injury or death.

Pharmaceutical companies faced major civil lawsuits in the 1980s over vaccine injuries, and instead of making “safer” vaccines or removing questionable ones from the market, they lobbied Congress to give them blanket immunity. Thus, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act of 2005 further solidified Big Pharma’s immunity protection for vaccines.

Why would the federal government give total immunity to an industry profiting off of a product referred to as “unavoidably unsafe”? Or maybe the better question to ask is: Which industry donates unprecedented sums of money to Congress and has blanket immunity for a certain product mandated by the government? Big Pharma.

While Big Pharma is liable for a drug or device that causes injury or death, labeling something a “vaccine” gives them legal immunity, no matter how harmful the product might be for some individuals. The dictionary definition of “vaccine” changed in 2021 from providing “immunity” to providing “protection,” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even tweaked the definition, though they claim it didn’t alter the meaning of the word. Talk about moving the goalposts!

During the COVID pandemic, the development and manufacture of the so-called COVID “vaccine” was expedited under Operation Warp Speed and hit the market in December 2020, less than a year after the first official coronavirus case in the U.S.

In the months and years that followed, some 270 million Americans, 81% of the population, received at least one dose of the COVID shot. Though some willingly complied, many were pressured or forced to receive the experimental injection that has since been proven largely ineffective, harmful, and even fatal in some cases.

A staggering 1.6 million COVID adverse events, including 38,264 deaths and 219,594 hospitalizations, have been reported as of December 2024, according to data compiled from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). A Harvard Pilgrim study completed in 2010 concluded that fewer than 1% of all vaccine adverse events are reported. Many health care providers fail to or are unwilling to report side effects as vaccine adverse events.

Families who lost loved ones to a vaccine will never be the same again, yet Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson will answer to no one because of the legal immunity they have enjoyed since 1986.

Vaccines are gold mines for Big Pharma because they reap hundreds of billions of dollars and face zero financial liability when their vaccines cause injury or death.

The childhood vaccine schedule continues to grow with each passing year with the vaccine schedule adopted by the CDC now recommending children receive 32 injections in-utero through age 2 and about 70 injections by age 18, according to Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and epidemiologist and the McCullough Foundation.

According to the Children’s Health Defense, the childhood vaccine schedule went from 25 doses of six vaccines (up to age 15) in 1986 to 73 doses of 17 vaccines (up to age 18) in 2023.

The combination of enormous financial incentives for Big Pharma along with absolute immunity is clearly contrary to the public health of and well-being of children and families.

Add to this the fact that doctors administering vaccines are incentivized by insurance companies to have a high percentage of their patients vaccinated, and the risk increases. Ever wonder why some pediatricians refuse to accept children who don’t get vaccinated as their patients? The answer is the pressure from insurance companies.

During COVID, the push for the shots was even worse because health care providers were paid a higher reimbursement for the COVID shots.

And when Big Pharma rolls out another vaccine, their lobbyists pressure federal and state legislators to add this new jab to the required list for children. The money begins to roll in, and Big Pharma has zero liability for injuries and deaths.

American children are not getting healthier. We must ask why? The answer is right in front of us.

No matter how you feel about vaccines in general or any specific vaccine, we should all agree that any company that creates a product that causes injury or death should be held accountable. This is especially true with Big Pharma. As I said, if Big Pharma creates or distributes a drug that causes harm, they can be held accountable. But if they label their chemical concoction as a “vaccine,” they have no liability.

It should concern us that the industry tasked with vaccine production faces no legal recourse or transparency, considering that in 1986, 12.8% of children in the U.S. reportedly had a chronic health condition, such as obesity, compared to around 54% of children in 2007. Interestingly, 2007 is the last year this data is available, as the federal government stopped making this information public.

Data also shows that vaccinated children are 2.18 times more likely to have a developmental delay compared to unvaccinated children, and also that vaccinated children are 4.49 times more likely to have asthma than unvaccinated children. On top of this, autism rates have gone from 1 in 1,000 in the 1970s to 1 in 36 in 2023.

An industry that has a lack of accountability combined with profit incentives is a recipe for abuse and exploitation. The American people deserve transparency and the ability to hold vaccine manufacturers accountable.

A grand jury in Florida investigating vaccine manufacturers and their production process for vaccines following COVID recently released its final report, and the findings — revealing abuse, deception, cutting corners, and coverups — are damning.

To add insult to injury, the Biden administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) just extended COVID liability immunity for certain individuals and entities in health care thorough 2029 under the PREP Act.

With a Republican-led House and Senate, President Trump in the White House, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poised to be at the helm of Health and Human Services, the stage is set for absolute immunity for vaccine manufacturers to finally become a thing of the past by repealing the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.

There are over 2.6 million reports of vaccine adverse events since 1990. Why are the very manufacturers of the vaccines causing injury and death not held accountable for this grave harm?

Holding a company liable for damage caused by its product shouldn’t be partisan, political, or polarizing. End Big Pharma’s vaccine immunity and prioritize the health and well-being of people over profit.

Originally published in The Stream.

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