The one where Pfizer covered up a profound vaccine side effect
As an homage to the tv show “Friends”, where every episode name starts with “the one where”……… today’s post is “the one where Pfizer knew a phase 3 trial participant had a vaccine complication but covered it up”.
Subject # 12312982 in Pfizer study C4591001 is Augusto Roux, a 35-year old lawyer from Buenos Aires, Argentina who volunteered for Pfizer’s stage 3 trial of its COVID-19 inoculation in order to protect his mother with emphysema. He received his second trial injection on Sept. 9, 2020. He began feeling unwell, developed a high fever and felt terribly ill until he fainted on Sept. 11 and finally went to the hospital on Sept. 12 (but not the hospital where the Pfizer trial was being run). They did a thorough work-up, including a CT scan of his chest that showed an abnormal collection of fluid around the outside of the heart. He had pericarditis. When he was discharged on September 14th, 2020, the discharging physician noted on his chart that he had “a covid vaccination reaction” as the cause for his pericarditis. And check this part out! Remember….Mr. Roux is an attorney. While he was hospitalized, he was informed by his medical team that he was not the ONLY patient admitted for a clinical trial injection issue. One of his nurses estimated that they had treated 300 patients in the covid vaccine clinical trial for complications. This trial only had 2400-ish participants. My maths says thats 12.5% of clinical trial participants had an adverse event that landed them in the hospital. Oopsies.
But oh it gets worse. Pfizer trial was notified about this event. But they did not own up to the pericarditis being due to the trial vax. They CHANGED the diagnosis of pericarditis to covid-19 (which he tested negative for when diagnosed with pericarditis). Stinky cover up!!!! It gets even better……the clinical trial administrator not only changed the pericarditis to covid 19 as his cause of illness, but they ADDED ANOTHER DIAGNOSIS: anxiety disorder. Claimed the trial participant Mr. Roux had a panic attack that caused his illness. He fought for a year to get his medical records to show this chain of fraud that happened. Pfizer is of course denying all of this. Mr. Roux has his records. And he has shown the documentation to validate his experience. His case may well be the pilot case in a class action lawsuit that shows Pfizer trial fraud. To be continued……..