Pandemics: How the WHO helps Big Pharma to make billions in profits!

22.09.2021 | www.kla.tv/19883

The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in 1948 and today has 194 member states. Its constitution states that its purpose is to help all peoples to achieve the best possible state of health. In recent years though, the WHO’s proximity to the pharma industry has faced growing criticism. Reporter Jeremy Loffredo of Children’s Health Defense also criticised them in an October 2020 article. Children’s Health Defense is an organization that advocates worldwide for people’s health. Listen now to the slightly abridged article: “When the WHO broadened its definition of ‘global pandemic’ in 2009, H1N1 vaccine makers profited at the taxpayers’ expense. Manufacturers of the COVID vaccine are likely to reap even more benefits. In the years leading up to 2009, the World Health Organization worked alongside vaccine manufacturers, namely GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to ensure that European and African countries entered into contracts to vaccinate their citizens in the event of an unforeseen global flu pandemic. These dormant, or ‘sleeping’ contracts, stipulated that if a global pandemic were to occur, it would trigger the contracts, specified pharmaceutical companies would manufacture flu vaccines and the respective governments would pay the vaccine manufacturers. On June 11, 2009, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, triggering the dormant contracts and throwing the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry into high gear. Chan was able to make this declaration based on WHO’s official definition of a pandemic, which was updated just a month before declaring the H1N1 pandemic. WHO deleted its definition of a pandemic from the organization’s website and replaced it with a new, more flexible definition. Under the new definition, WHO no longer required that anyone die from an illness before the organization could declare a pandemic. The new definition stipulated only that infections be geographically widespread. At the time WHO declared the H1N1 swine flu a pandemic, only 144 people worldwide had died from the infection. As Wolfgang Wodarg, then chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Health Committee, explained: “The WHO had a definition of a pandemic, which it defined as a virus with high mortality and high morbidity. And in 2009 they suddenly dropped those two characteristics, saying nothing about severity or mortality.” WHO wasn’t solely responsible for the decision to declare H1N1 a pandemic. WHO officials had consulted an emergency panel of 160 scientists on the International Health Regulations Committee. Although the identities of these scientists weren’t publicly known at the time, a 2010 British Medical Journal investigation revealed that many of the committee members who voted to declare H1N1 a pandemic had financial ties to flu vaccine manufacturers, including GSK. The declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic launched 18 billion dollars worth of “dormant” flu vaccine contracts, and allowed GSK to push its vaccine, Pandemrix, onto countries all over the world. WHO wasn’t solely responsible for the decision to declare H1N1 a pandemic. WHO officials had consulted an emergency panel of 160 scientists on the International Health Regulations Committee. Although the identities of these scientists weren’t publicly known at the time, a 2010 British Medical Journal investigation revealed that many of the committee members who voted to declare H1N1 a pandemic had financial ties to flu vaccine manufacturers, including GSK. The declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic launched 18 billion dollars worth of “dormant” flu vaccine contracts, and allowed GSK to push its vaccine, Pandemrix, onto countries all over the world. The panic that surrounded H1N1 swine flu and the subsequent rush to get vaccinated was in part driven by inflated and widely disseminated models which incorrectly predicted thousands upon thousands of people would die from the flu. These models were provided by Professor Neil Ferguson and his team of researchers at London’s Imperial College. Ferguson’s group advised the UK government to prepare for at least 65,000 deaths. By the end of the pandemic, H1N1 swine flu had claimed the lives of just 457 people. Paul Flynn, the vice chairman of the Council of Europe’s European Health Committee, said of the H1N1 swine flu debacle: “The world has been subjected to a stunt by the greed of the pharmaceutical companies.” Eleven years later, on March 11, 2020, WHO, relying on the same attenuated definition of a pandemic, declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. Many governments based their COVID-19 prevention policies, including border closures and lockdowns, on computer models designed by Ferguson and his team at Oxford, despite the exponential inaccuracies of the model he had provided during the H1N1 pandemic. Ferguson’s models predicted more than 2.2 million Americans would die from COVID-19. To date, about 229,000 have died.” […] According to recent reports, Switzerland has spent up to 400 million Swiss francs to reserve Corona vaccines. In Germany, the cost of reserved Corona vaccines is more than 2.7 billion euros. And already at the beginning of the Corona pandemic declared by the WHO, more than 7.4 billion euros were allocated by governments and organizations to the pharma industry after the EU Commission called for the development of Corona vaccines. The WHO’s definition of a “pandemic”, which was adjusted in 2009, is helping the pharma industry to make billions in profits in the current Corona pandemic as well. Thus, the WHO proves to maximize profit for the pharma industry and its products.

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Sources/Links: The Defender, Children‘s Health Defense https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-definition-global-pandemic-benefits-big-pharma/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b4e0967b-b2fc-4452-bb86-01cf1be86f55
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltgesundheitsorganisation
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https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/impfstoff-von-pfizer-schweiz-reserviert-rund-3-millionen-dosen-ld.1586508?reduced=true
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/coronavirus-impfstoff-kosten-zulassung-100.html