Big Pharma Awarded BILLIONS To Rush COVID Vaccine & Overdose Deaths Spike Across America

Via America’s Lawyer: President Trump has been pushing for expedited vaccine approvals, leaving health experts questioning whether he’s prioritizing efficiency over efficacy and safety. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Plus, RT Correspondent Brigida Santos joins Mike Papantonio to explain how we’ve seen a sharp spike in drug overdose deaths during the pandemic.

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The Trump administration is paying big bucks to drug companies to rush a COVID vaccine that, chances are, is not very effective. This is crazy, man. They're giving billions of dollars to drug companies right now. Ordinarily it takes 10 years, 10 years to develop a vaccine. If everything's perfect, you can do it in four years, but that doesn't stop the Trump administration. They say, ah, no, we're going to pump billions of dollars into companies that have never even worked on a vaccine before. What's your take?

Well, my immediate reaction reading this story before coming here today was, you know, Pfizer, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, J & J, Moderna, I thought I'm pretty sure you've been in court on the opposite side of each and every one of these.

I, I've been, I've been in trial against everyone, in trial, not just in court but in trial against Pfizer, in trial against Johnson & Johnson.

And, and so that's what made me think, you know, looking at who is doing this, and who's getting billions from this administration to do it. Would you, would you trust if one of these companies came up to you right now and said, all right, we've got the COVID vaccine. Will you take it?

Is that a rhetorical question?

And I know we've seen, we have seen a lot on the left, people freak out and say, I'm not going to take a vaccine because just, you know, if Trump says it's safe.

Because Trump says, yeah.

But it's not, it's not about Trump. He has no real say in that. It's these companies that we can't trust, never have, never will because of their histories.

Everyone of these companies have been sued so many times for defective products. I've lost count. And you think the FDA is there to protect you? The FDA is being now urged to, to give a pre-approval of the vaccine before we have any idea what the clinicals actually look like.

And, they've got a little secret panel of, I think, 10 to 15.

Yes.

People.

Who work for the industry, basically.

Right. And we don't know who they are, what they're deciding, but they're the ones who are going to tell us whether or not this vaccine is good to go. And I don't trust a single one.

And, and they make a lot of money working for the industry.

Yeah.

Drug overdose deaths have spiked at an alarming rate during the COVID 19 pandemic, which has already claimed the lives of more than 225,000 people just in America. Brigida Santos joins me now to talk about this. Brigida, how many States have reported spikes in overdose deaths and what drugs are people dying from?

Well, since March of this year, when many States began implementing those stay at home orders, at least 40 States have reported a spike in opioid overdoses. Now, nationally overdose deaths had already risen about 10% between March of 2019 and March of this year. But that trend continues with people now overdosing on opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamines at even higher rates, about an 18% spike in many States. Now this is largely because the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated existing problems with dealing with the overdose crisis. Since those lockdowns began, it's been difficult for people to access harm reduction services, addiction treatment, and even needle exchange programs. The pandemic has also caused disruptions in the supply chain for the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone. And of course, Mike, more people are experiencing pandemic related loneliness, homelessness, poverty, and stress, which only contributes to this problem further.

Yeah. Next we'll have, you know, frogs falling from the sky, Jesus.

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