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Even the 2004 Vioxx scandal didn't stop people getting the jabs

Even the 2004 Vioxx scandal didn't stop people getting the jabs

Why did the world trust Big Pharma?

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Below is the opening text relating to Vioxx on drugwatch:

“Vioxx was once a popular drug to treat arthritis. But manufacturer Merck & Co. pulled it from the market in 2004 amid safety concerns. Research linked the drug to thousands of fatal heart attacks.

Before it was removed from the market in 2004, Vioxx may have hurt hundreds of thousands of patients, killing a third of them, a senior FDA investigator said at the time.

Dr. David Graham, in interviews and Congressional testimony, criticized his own agency’s approval process of the pain reliever.

Graham described the outcome of Vioxx as “a disaster,” one that is “unparalleled in the history of the United States” and that “constituted an unprecedented failure of the nation’s system of drug approval and oversight.”

Unparalleled no more!!!

Were people too young or ill-informed?

Yes, there will be the younger generation that was not aware of how Merck tried for years to cover-up the fact that by continuing to sell Vioxx, it was killing people,…

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