Texas is suing the pharmaceutical large behind the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a swimsuit filed Thursday in state district court docket in Lubbock County, state Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer of selling the vaccine and its boosters by making “unsupported claims.”
“Americans were given the impression that Pfizer’s vaccine would end the coronavirus pandemic,” the lawsuit stated, in line with a report within the San Antonio Express-News. “Contrary to Pfizer’s public statements, however, the pandemic did not end; it got worse.”
Among the information famous are that extra Americans died of COVID-19 in 2021, the yr the vaccine grew to become broadly obtainable, than died in 2020. A majority of the adults dying of COVID-19 as of August 2022, had been vaccinated and/or boosted, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information exhibits.
Pfizer stated the claims within the lawsuit had “no merit.”
“The representations made by the company about its COVID-19 vaccine have been accurate and science-based,” it stated. “Pfizer is deeply committed to the well-being of the patients it serves and has no higher priority than the safety and effectiveness of its treatments and vaccines.”
