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How can these two statements from Health Canada be true at the same time? “Only vaccines that meet Health Canada's regulatory requirements for safety, effectiveness and quality are approved for use in Canada. COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of severe illness, death and post COVID-19 condition (long COVID).” - Currently on Health Canada’s Website (link: https://t.co/2DHAfHmUtz) And “At the time of initial authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech) in December 2020, there was no reported evidence on the efficacy of the authorized COVID-19 vaccine to prevent asymptomatic infection, to reduce viral shedding, or to prevent transmission.” - Public Health Agency of Canada February 5, 2024 (link: https://t.co/vj9YWoGbJV) Anyone?

There was no trial on the drug given to the public - the mass produced version. To appease the regulators Pfizer agreed to a comparison study of the different manufacturing sites against a control group (presumably the drug used in the trial). The control group was removed on 9th Feb 2021. The "objective to describe the safety and immunogenicity of prophylactic BNT162b2 ...produced by manufacturing "process 2"" was dropped in September 2022. https://t.co/qOGCLTLNwu