HOPE Or HYPE: Part 3: Can We Trust Pfizer to Police Itself?

A number of concerns have bene raised about the safety and
efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus, to wit:

• No data that show the vaccine prevents
  hospitalizations, ICU cases, or deaths
• No data that show the vaccine prevents
  transmission of the disease
• No access to the patient-level data
• No data at all beyond the three-month endpoint

Moreover, the trial
protocol contains instructions which could be interpreted as subtly
admonishing clinicians to break the blind and systematically undercount cases
in the treatment arm.

New data that have become
available have done little to allay any of these concerns.

Writing in the 4 January issue of
the …read more