CDC & Big Pharma Companies Caught in Potentially MAJOR Conflict of Interest

The CDC’s corruption is rotten to the core.

Instead of protecting public health, the agency operates as a glorified public relations firm for the pharmaceutical companies.

Literally.

A new discovery has sparked concerns that the CDC utilizes the same PR firm beholden to Pfizer and Moderna.

A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”

“New York-based firm Weber Shandwick has been responsible for elevating Pfizer’s profile since at least 2006. It partnered with Moderna in June this year, after the small biotech firm became a household name following its vaccine success,” the Daily Mail stated.

You’d think Weber Shandwick wouldn’t be associated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Yet, it has emerged that the company was hired by the CDC during COVID-19 to boost its ‘health communication.’

It was involved in PR campaigns that encouraged Americans to take the experimental COVID-19 shot.

Pfizer and Moderna’s profits have never looked better since the COVID-19 jab rollout.

And the CDC provided ample assistance to enrich the pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Weber Shandwick Provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, While Staffing the CDC’s Vaccine Office https://t.co/aeOqGLDPMa
$50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.” /1 pic.twitter.com/Kui26LZz9G

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) October 11, 2022

CDC and Pfizer/Moderna share the same PR firm working on contract. https://t.co/v4czaBX0cn

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) October 14, 2022

Here's the LinkedIn account of one Weber Shandwick employee "Embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team." https://t.co/aeOqGLDPMa /3 pic.twitter.com/bUPGBzQm08

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) October 11, 2022

Via the Daily Mail:

Vaccine makers made more than $34billion in profits last year from the Covid jabs alone — equivalent to $1,000 a second, according to estimates.

They are expected to make billions more from the bivalent booster jabs being rolled out this winter — with the US having bought 171million doses.

Today the updated shots — which tackle Omicron variants — got the green light for children as young as five years old. They are currently recommended for all over-12s.

Weber Shandwick works for the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).

The potential conflict of interest was brought to attention in a LinkedIn post by an employee of the PR firm last year.

They wrote on the social media site: ‘So excited to be starting a new role today! I’m joining Weber Shandwick as an Account Director supporting a contract I know well, at the CDC’s NCIRD!’

Another employee replied: ‘Welcome back to the team!’

In 2020 Weber Shandwick also won an up to $50million contract from the US Government to promote flu vaccines to the public.

Its responsibilities included distributing social media posts and articles promoting vaccines, and sending press releases to the media.

It was also involved in ‘paid media placement’, a common euphemism for advertising.

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The firm was employed by Moderna in June this year alongside two other PR firms to promote its mRNA vaccine – despite being a direct rival to Pfizer.

The Disinformation Chronicle noted:

“This is irresponsible of CDC to issue a PR contract to Weber Shandwick, knowing that the firm also works for Moderna and Pfizer,” emailed Public Citizen’s Craig Holman. “It raises legitimate questions of whose interests Weber Shandwick will put first – their private sector clients or the public’s interest at NCIRD.”

“This new reporting that CDC had a contract with the same PR firm representing the manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine raises serious concerns,” wrote a spokesperson for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), adding that the Senator has repeatedly questioned federal officials about potential conflicts of interest related to CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Following the midterm elections in November, Senator Paul will be next in line as the top Republican on the Senate HELP Committee which oversees the CDC.

“The American people deserve transparency and these conflicts of interest will be thoroughly investigated by our committee next year,” the Senator’s spokesperson added.

Founded almost 20 years ago, Weber Shandwick (IPG Dxtra) is the second largest PR firm in the world, according to Provoke Media, which will announce awards the firm has won at a contest held later this year.