The Taliban TV parsley of vaccines admits financing from Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax, Janssen, Bayer, Sanofi and others. Then, pressed by parliamentarians, he dares to say: “I am more independent because I take money from many.”
It was not a hearing on the vaccination campaign, it was still part of the discussion on the restrictive measures adopted during the first pandemic wave, and yet Fabrizio Pregliasco he took the opportunity to declare to the parliamentary commission of inquiry that “the vaccine has good safety and not particularly serious adverse effects”.
Certainly not new statements from the director of the School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Milan, member of the Cts Lombardia during the pandemic. The news is that the professor admitted: «In the last four years I have had direct financing relationships with the following subjects with commercial interests in the healthcare field». He listed them: «Gsk, Sequirus, Bayer, Janssen, Sanofi, Bausch & Lomb, Lilly, Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax, Procter & Gamble».
Virtually all the big producers of Covid vaccines, so how can he claim to speak disinterestedly about the goodness of the doses inoculated to billions of people, while receiving funding from Big Pharma? The senator Alfonso Coluccione of the 5 Star exponents closest to the former prime minister Giuseppe Conteattempted in vain to stem the snowball effect of such a conflict of interest declaration. «But did you have personal money or money for scientific research?», was his ridiculous question, as if the financing of studies did not imply conditions.
«It is surprising that such an important aspect has not been highlighted and denounced even by those who for years have made honesty and transparency a real political flag», he underlined Alice Buonguerrierigroup leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Covid commission, accusing the M5s and the left of preaching well but scratching around badly. The defense of Pregliasco was that it is a problem that concerns «all biomedical research and those who work in this field», before painfully specifying: «Perhaps I am more independent than others because I have received funding from more companies». Harsh was the reply of Antonella Zeddavice-president of the Fdi senators: «Those who take money from drug manufacturers are not third parties in judging the vaccine issue. Politics has come to terms with Clean Hands, even in the scientific field there must be clarity and honesty.”
The professor’s entire hearing was a celebration of the lockdowns, of the vaccination campaigns, however with many “I don’t remember” and surprising clarifications. «The pandemic plan was certainly a skeleton of actions. With the Prime Ministerial Decree system the plan has been implemented”, he declared. Count And Hope in short, they would have remedied the failure to update and implement a plan that was stuck in 2006 through measures that trampled on constitutional rights, undermined the health of Italians and undermined the national economy.
Non-pharmacological interventions such as lockdowns, school and workplace closures “significantly reduce Covid transmission especially if combined and applied early”, he said. However, when the president of the commission, Marco Liseiasked him if he knew about the WHO alert of 5 January 2020 which reported the presence of a respiratory virus that could be relevant, Pregliasco he got confused. «I heard about it from the media, I don’t remember well. I believe from formal, circular communications.” He explained that the measures they asked to adopt were “the revision of the protocols, the training of staff, to equip ourselves, to reduce infections”. He pressed Liseihave you done it? “Gradually.” So much for timeliness. Would the pandemic plan have been helpful? «He dedicated a few pages to the organization». Not at all, he dedicated about thirty of them, the president of the commission denied it. Colucci he was trembling, he wanted to intervene because he didn’t accept questions from Lisei. Five years after the outbreak of the pandemic, we have therefore learned from the hygienist that “Covid is a banal pathology in the vast majority of cases”, while he repeats: “Being protected by vaccination reduces the risk of infections”. Turbo tumors and sudden deaths? “When told individually they are distressing, they were a problem that existed and which remains the same in numerical terms as before and has other reasons in terms of causes and lifestyles.” Tachipirina and watchful waiting were fine, drugs such as povidone iodine or hydroxychloroquine “required more studies and meta-analyses”. Vaccines, right? If those drugs used outside the protocols worked for certain patients “it was because it was their destiny to recover”, he asserts Pregliasco. Speaking about the risk of avian flu (H5N1), he complains that Italy «has not opted for the purchase of a pre-pandemic vaccine. If nothing happens it will be money saved, if something happens it will be the option we won’t have.” Is the man of science speaking or the one financed by Big Pharma?
Dad Leo XIV yesterday he took up the pharmaceutical industry again: on the drama of the new increasingly lethal synthetic drugs, he said that they do not represent “just a crime of drug traffickers, but a reality that has to do with the production of drugs and its profit, devoid of global ethics”.
