Recent findings by German scientists have revealed that a significant number of batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine that were distributed across the European Union may have contained placebos. As a result, these batches were not subjected to quality control testing by the German agency that was responsible for approving their release.
New data on COVID vaccines in EU
“The scientists, Dr. Gerald Dyker, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, and Dr. Jörg Matysik, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, are part of a group of five German-speaking scientists who have been publicly raising questions about the quality and safety of the BioNTech vaccine (as it is known in Germany) for the last year and a half.
They recently appeared on the Punkt.Preradovic online program of the German journalist Milena Preradovic to discuss batch variability.
Did Pfizer want to get a rough idea of the safety of two versions of the vaccine compared to a placebo?
A mass scale observational study without the participants’ informed consent.
Lucky are those who got the placebo!— Abir Ballan (@abirballan) January 19, 2024
Their starting point was the recent Danish study showing enormous variation in the adverse events associated with different batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or BNT162b2 per its scientific codename.
It is not widely known that the German regulatory agency, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), is responsible for quality control of all Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine supplies in the EU.
The institute is named after the German immunologist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich, not the Stanford biology professor of the same name.
BioNTech, a German company, is the actual legal manufacturer of the vaccine, and also holds the marketing authorization in the EU. Pfizer is its more well-known American partner.
According to Dyker and Matysik, the PEI has tested and approved all the “blue” batches, which were very bad, as well as the majority of the “green” batches, which were not so bad.
However, the PEI tested almost none of the “yellow” batches, which were harmless. This suggests that the PEI knew in advance that these batches were unproblematic.
Check out the latest reports about the matter in the original article.
