Covid, Opioids, Healthcare: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Poisons Society
In November of 2020 the United States government granted 1.95 billion dollars to Pfizer for Covid vaccine research and testing, according to the New York Times. This billion dollar handout was also given to pressure Pfizer to not only develop an inoculation for Covid but to also expedite the process. Donald Trump was up against the proverbial clock to rush out a vaccine months before the election and succeeded in writing blank checks to a number of other pharmaceutical companies. As we now know, the vaccinations weren't quite ready by November and Trump was easily defeated by Joe Biden. On December 14, 2020 the first non-clinical covid vaccine injection was given to a nurse in New York City ( date courtesy of wsj.com). Although the rollout for these shots happened in less than a year, an absurdly ambitious amount of time, most people were overly optimistic about the chances for success. The calendar flipped to 2021, a new president was in the white house and it seemed by