Premium Only Content
Moderna fine
'Inappropriate financial inducement', company had brought “discredit upon the pharmaceutical industry”.Moderna under fire after children offered cash to test Covid vaccine
Company targeted 12 to 18 year-olds through WhatsApp with payments of £1,500
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/02/moderna-offered-children-cash-test-covid-vaccine/
Moderna has been rebuked by regulators
Moderna ordered to pay £14,000
(Moderna, total revenue was $6.8 billion in 2023)
Moderna representative had sent a WhatsApp message offering £1,500 to children to be subjects in covid booster trials.
NextCove trial
The offer was made by a paediatrician from an unnamed NHS trust
UK Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA)
Ruled that the offer amounted to “inappropriate financial inducement”,
found the company had brought “discredit upon the pharmaceutical industry”.
UK Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority
https://www.pmcpa.org.uk/about-us/
A research ethics committee
Warned about the “large amount of money” that Moderna was offering,
voiced concern it was “much higher than would be considered a reasonable reimbursement”.
The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations (2004)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1031/contents
It is prohibited for incentives or financial inducements to be given to children or their parents.
Complaint was filed in the UK
On behalf of the Children’s Covid Vaccines Advisory Council
https://childrensunion.org/ccvac/
In a statement, the PMCPA ruled
“On balance, the panel considered that this brought discredit upon and reduced confidence in the pharmaceutical industry.”
Moderna must provide a written undertaking that the practice will “cease forthwith” and pay for administrative costs.
Esther McVey MP
(formerly of the APPG on Covid-19 vaccine damage)
“A charge of £14,000 to a company that enjoyed a total revenue of $6.8 billion in 2023 is hardly likely to make them think twice before breaking the rules again.
“Not only are the charges too small but when they come, they come too late. There is a major backlog in handling these kinds of complaints, with a recent case against Moderna taking the PMCPA 18 months to consider.
“The system is clearly broken and failing to keep patients safe from misleading information and advertising about medicines.
The public’s trust in healthcare authorities will only continue to be damaged unless meaningful action is taken.”
Corporate interests vs the public’s right to know
By Rt Hon Esther McVey
It is time for real transparency in clinical research.
The case details the company’s inappropriate and unacceptable use of social media and big financial incentives to recruit healthy children into its Covid-19 vaccine trial.
For me, this case prompts further questions about how and why Moderna’s NextCOVE trial was ever approved in the first place.
-
16:08
Dr. John Campbell
6 days agoChannel introduction
21.3K113 -
LIVE
Russell Brand
3 hours ago“Trump Is A MAJOR THREAT To The Great Reset” – Dr Robert Malone On the Globalist Agenda – SF493
13,517 watching -
LIVE
vivafrei
1 hour agoThe Onion Buys/Shuts Down InfoWars? Trump Appointments Cause More Lefty Meltdowns & MORE! Viva Frei
2,496 watching -
DVR
Stephen Gardner
50 minutes ago🔥Tucker Carlson DEMANDS Trump and RFK JR FIX THIS NOW!!
434 -
1:57:27
Steven Crowder
3 hours agoGod Tier Level Trolling: Trump's Latest Picks Are Driving the Left Insane
352K201 -
LIVE
The Charlie Kirk Show
1 hour agoThe Battle of Matt Gaetz + The Recess Gambit | Davis, Sacks | 11.14.24
15,411 watching -
LIVE
Grant Stinchfield
52 minutes agoTrump Obliterates the Woke Agenda & Weaponization of Government with Gaetz for AG
543 watching -
UPCOMING
TheAlecLaceShow
2 hours agoGuests: Senator Ron Johnson & Rep. Eli Crane | Trump Assembles MAGA Dream Team | The Alec Lace Show
103 -
43:01
PMG
13 hours ago"Hannah Faulkner and Heather Wilson | GIVING BACK THROUGH GIVE SEND GO"
174 -
1:00:46
The Dan Bongino Show
3 hours agoHeads Explode As Trump Makes Another Huge Appointment (Ep. 2371) - 11/14/2024
556K695