CV NEWS FEED // A federal government public health agency reportedly received nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars from the pharmaceutical industry after the launch of COVID-19 shots.
“New data from the National Institutes of Health [NIH] reveal the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023,” Adam Andrzejewski wrote in a Sunday op-ed published in The New York Post.
“These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists,” he continued:
Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID], the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.
Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by the [NIH].
Fauci served as NIAID director for nearly 40 years – from 1984 until his retirement at the end of 2022. During the last two years of his tenure, he concurrently served as the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
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“During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma,” Andrzejewski noted. “Now we know just how close they were.”
Andrzejewski is the founder of OpenTheBooks, a nonprofit organization that advocates for transparency in government spending. He was a Republican candidate for governor of Illinois in 2010.
A lawsuit by Andrezejwski’s organization led to the uncovering of the stunning NIH data.
Writer Josh Walkos wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday evening: “We all learn what we already know. That the government and big pharma are one and the same.”
“[I]f this reporting is indeed accurate, it means between 2021-2023 the average royalty payment for the 260 scientists under the Fauci led [NIAID] scientists was $2,653,846.15,” Walkos wrote in a subsequent X post. “If their boss was able to secure them a $2.5 million supplemental income, I’m guessing that would be enough incentive to keep their mouth shut.”
On Monday, Fauci testified before the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, where lawmakers pressed him on the virus’ origins.
In his opening statement, the controversial doctor-scientist fired back at critics who claim he took actions to suppress alleged evidence that COVID leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
“The accusation being circulated that I influenced the scientists to change their minds by bribing them with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false, and simply preposterous,” Fauci told the subcommittee.
“The second issue is a false accusation that I tried to cover up the possibility that the virus originated from a lab,” he went on to claim. “In fact, the truth is exactly the opposite.”
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