The pharmaceutical watchdog is being urged to investigate after celebrity doctors discussed the Covid vaccine on primetime TV without disclosing payments of thousands of pounds from AstraZeneca.
In April of this year, AstraZeneca admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can, in a small percentage of cases, cause a rare and dangerous side effect. The following month, it emerged that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide.
The revelations prompted a fresh round of debate about the vaccine, with celebrity doctors invited on to television shows to discuss the fallout.
Dr. Ranj Singh, who regularly appears on the BBC as a talking head, was paid £22,500 by AstraZeneca in 2021, according to records from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).
Last month, he led a discussion on the BBC breakfast show Morning Live about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine and the “serious but rare” complications associated with it. He failed to declare his payments from the pharmaceutical giant to either the BBC or to viewers.
A BBC spokesman said they were unaware of the payments ahead of the show, adding: “The segment on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was balanced and covered reported risks and benefits. We became aware of Dr. Ranj’s 2021 work for the manufacturer after this segment aired and have now addressed this within the show.”
Dr. Nighat Arif, who became a familiar face on television during the pandemic including on BBC Breakfast, was paid £10,000 by Astra-Zeneca in 2022.
In April, she appeared on ITV’s This Morning to discuss possible side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine such as blood clots, and reassured people that these are “very, very rare”. …
Dr. Phillipa Kaye was paid £12,500 by AstraZeneca in 2020 and a further £9,000 by the same company in 2022.
During the pandemic she was prominent on social media, posting videos of herself encouraging people to get the Covid vaccine, some of which were officially promoted by the Department of Health.
In one post on X, formerly Twitter, in April 2021 she told her followers about the “benefit vs risk for the AZ vaccine”, explaining: “Risk of dying from a clot with the vaccine is one in 2.5 million. If 2.5 million 40 year-old gets Covid 2,000 will die and one in 20 (125,000 people) will have long Covid. Benefit outweighs risk.”
Alex Fell, Director of the pharmaceutical regulator, has been urged to investigate whether there have been any breaches of the ABPI code of practice for pharmaceutical companies.
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The CovidFlu destroyed my faith in Medicine and Government in the United States if not the World. I did not take The Jab albeit I was under pressure from close family as well as from my co-workers, several who declared me as a threat to their lives!! These were educated people, a large number with college degrees!!! But I am so very glad, now, that I didn’t kneel to the pressures of stupid people and corrupt implicit government officials – most of who were elite Democrat/Socialists!!! My bet is that they never took The Jab either!!! But they, the Pharma-Government, all deserve to die horribly with ventilator tubes shoved down their throats into their lungs!!! Fauci the Farce deserves the Mussolini Treatment!!!
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Being celebs and doctors is rather conflicting. Most are neither…con men at best.
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Tim Castell
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The CovidFlu destroyed my faith in Medicine and Government in the United States if not the World. I did not take The Jab albeit I was under pressure from close family as well as from my co-workers, several who declared me as a threat to their lives!! These were educated people, a large number with college degrees!!! But I am so very glad, now, that I didn’t kneel to the pressures of stupid people and corrupt implicit government officials – most of who were elite Democrat/Socialists!!! My bet is that they never took The Jab either!!! But they, the Pharma-Government, all deserve to die horribly with ventilator tubes shoved down their throats into their lungs!!! Fauci the Farce deserves the Mussolini Treatment!!!
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