Why Did Pfizer Stop Their Clinical Trial For COVID Vaccines During Pregnancy
By Arjun Walia
The Pulse
Posted on November 10, 2023
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During the rollout of COVID vaccines, a lot of concerns were raised regarding the safety of the jab for pregnant women.
These concerns were drowned in a number of statements made by health authorities. In April 2021, four months after the COVID vaccine was granted emergency use authorization, CDC director Rachel Walensky recommended that all “pregnant people” get the vaccine. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) “enthusiastically” recommended it three months later.
These recommendations came despite the fact that there was zero evidence showing that the vaccine was safe for pregnant women.
In an attempt to settle the controversy, Pfizer launched a randomized controlled trial of 4,000 pregnant women. But just five months into the study, they stopped recruiting after 349 women had already been enrolled.
Pfizer never really explained why, and the most concerning fact is that the pregnancy outcomes of those who participated in the trial, and their babies, are still not public.
This isn’t a surprise, however. A 2021 study by Yale, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania published in The BMJ found that out of 58 new drugs that the FDA approved in a two-year period, 33% did not make their trial results public.
But given the extreme controversy around COVID vaccines, you’d think Pfizer would want to be transparent. Then again, they needed a court order to push them to be transparent with their trial results after wanting to wait 75 years before releasing them.
Pfizers Response
In 2022, Jelena Vojicic, vaccine medical lead at Pfizer Canada stated the following in an email that was released as a result of a court case,
“The study enrolment was stopped with incomplete numbers because recruitment was slow and it became unreasonable/inappropriate to randomize pregnant women to placebo given the amount of observational evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, coupled with increasing number of technical committees supporting immunization of pregnant women”
Pfizer told investigative medical journalist Maryanne Demasi that,
“With the declining enrolment, the study had insufficient sample size to assess the primary immunogenicity objective and continuation of this placebo controlled study could no longer be justified due to global recommendations.”
So basically, women don’t need to know and there is no evidence according to Pfizer. Pfizer thought with slow enrolment it was unethical and dangerous to have a placebo group and not vaccinate pregnant women during a “deadly pandemic.”
The medical industrial complex had already declared it safe and effective regardless of any data. Why continue a trial if the vaccine is already being widely accepted as safe and effective for pregnant women? This is “groupthink science”, as Dr. Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H refers to it.
This reminds of of an article I published in April regarding scientific consensus and what it actually means. You can read that here if interested.
Other Doctors Respond
Dr. Makary covered this story well in an article for the Tablet.
“They just recommended it for pregnant women with zero data. And maybe that's why [Pfizer] stopped the study….running a study runs the risk of showing that there may not be a benefit in pregnant women.”
Tracy Beth Høeg MD, PhD, asked what many others did as well,
“Why? Do they not have enough money to fund the full trial? Lol. No, that’s not it. Could it be they found a concerning signal and did not want to chance letting it become significant? Hmmm. That sounds more likely.”
She then points out that 5.1% of infants of vaccinated moms had adverse events of special interest (AESI) between birth and 6 months while only 1.3% of infants in the control arm had AESIs.
“Because they limited the size of the trial, Pfizer can always say they didn’t find a significant signal. But if they don’t look, how can they find it?
Please note we don’t know what these adverse events were. They also didn’t report the birth outcomes (like stillbirths). Pfizer also didn’t report any efficacy data.
Why was the CDC “so sure” the mRNA covid vaccines were safe and effective in pregnancy? The answer is the same as it ever was: either they were basing their guidelines on feelings instead of data or, even worse, they were simply repeating what they were told to say.”
It would be nice to know exactly what these adverse reactions were. So far, COVID vaccines have made up a staggering majority of vaccine injury reports compared to all other vaccines combined over the past few decades.
As our good friend Dr. Madhava Setty points out:
“The Pharma-owned medical establishment will likely never admit that mistakes were made. The CDC (Center for Disease Concoction and Perpetuation) continues to ignore the nearly quarter million reports of Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) and tens of thousands of reports of deaths following Covid-19 vaccination in their own adverse event reporting systems which were created as a concession to the public in exchange for granting vaccine manufacturers immunity from any liability related to their products.”
A recent Pfizer data dump also revealed more suspicious anomalies around the trial that launched the worldwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
As far as why these injuries are occurring, that’s a complex question. There are multiple possible mechanisms of action that are currently being explored. I outline a few in this article I wrote last year, and in this one I published earlier this year. The bio- distribution of the vaccine induced spike protein seems to be a common denominator, especially when it comes to concerns with pregnancy.
Further, here is a piece covering the observations by Dr. Peter Doshi, a senior editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He shares concerning safety signals he discovered early on in the pandemic.
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A Loss of Trust & Lack of Transparency
It’s no secret that a huge loss of trust in institutions is occurring. And it’s for good reason. Big Pharma, governments, and regulators have often lied, aligned with lobbyists and are largely elitist in their actions. This would inevitably lead to a loss of trust as it is exposed.
This is why it is no surprise that a report from the US Census Bureau revealed the following results when it came to why people over 18 in the US chose not to get vaccinated.
At the end of the day, it’s pharmaceutical companies who have a large track record of stopping trials that aren’t showing favourable results. The fact that this data isn’t even made public allows them to control the narrative even more, as well as gain financially.
As people lose trust in institutions, companies and governments haven’t chosen transparency, instead they largely resort to censorship and ridicule of opposing positions. What can they expect from the public but an even greater loss of trust when they choose these actions?
Unlike in the past, it is much for common for people to understand revelations like what was outlined in a paper published in 2010 by Robert G. Evans, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. It outlines how Pfizer has been a “habitual offender” constantly engaging in illegal and criminal activities.
The paper reveals that from 2002 to 2010, Pfizer has been “assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards” and has set records for both criminal fines and total penalties. Keep in mind we are now in 2023.
“But cutting corners on research and pushing vaccines without data is dangerous. It’s probably why 58% of women under age 50 say they do not trust public health officials when they say that the COVID vaccine is safe and effective in pregnancy, according to a University of Pennsylvania study published last month. Overall trust in the CDC is down from 69% pre-pandemic to 44% today. Dishonesty has consequences.” - Makary, M.D., M.P.H
All of this and more accounts for an ever-growing lack of trust in government and the health (and other) recommendations they make.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how obvious the need for questioning these organizations becomes, how much corruption is in their history, or how much evidence is brought forth, those who question the narrative are considered “anti-vaxxers.”
The COVID pandemic marked the first time in history when renowned vaccine experts, developers, scientists and doctors were labelled as “anti-vaxxers” en masse.
Where Do We Go From Here?
As we often outline, we are in a moment of upheaval and change. Old systems, ideas, and ways of operating are falling apart. A consciousness of dominance, ego, and separation has been the driving force behind our systems for centuries, but this is now changing.
As was outlined in a previous article we published this week, to navigate these changing times we must build our capacity to be strong, resilient and well-regulated mentally and emotionally. It will help us make sense of what’s happening around us and avoid getting swept up in the chaos.
Arjun Walia
