Federal bureaucrats turned down an offer from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in mid-2020 for a detailed meeting with top executives and the Health Minister about the company’s progress on a coronavirus vaccine, as other countries were already on track to signing deals for millions of doses.
In a letter to Health Minister Greg Hunt dated June 30, a Pfizer Australia representative said the company was working in collaboration with BioNTech to develop, test and manufacture an mRNA-base vaccine that could potentially “be deployed at unprecedented speed” to prevent COVID-19 infections. The first meeting was scheduled for July 10. Ms Schofield told a Senate COVID-19 committee hearing earlier this year no offer for doses was put on the table at that meeting, and it was a more general discussion about where the company was at in the process.But the documents reveal Pfizer was willing to provide a more detailed outline of the company’s approach in that meeting, if the Commonwealth representatives signed confidential disclosure agreements .
A follow-up email the next day suggested a “highly detailed” slide deck could be included if the non-disclosure was signed, so the company could run Australia through the development and trial process. “The vaccine rollout was always a race, but Australia started a lap behind because Scott Morrison’s government took a deliberate “wait and see” approach to vaccine deals,” he said.
rachelclun And not one of them has lost a cent while we’re all out here suffering. How hard was it to think maybe a contingency was a good idea. Seems every other country thought so.
rachelclun Morrison knew
rachelclun Profit over People! Dave Sharma and other Libs bought heavily in to AZ Shares- so Pfizer was sabotaged -SIMPLE
rachelclun Well it was pretty obvious!
rachelclun auspol COVID19Aus Hunt thought they had Aus covered with AZ, if ATAGI hadn't flip-flopped with their advice that was the case. Now we are hearing AZ may be more effective long term. With a major corporate trying to sell $!t to a minister, the delay seemed prudent at the time.
rachelclun Hunt must be sacked for wilfully endangering lives
rachelclun so this is what that guy was talking about
rachelclun ScottMorrisonMP imagine, if u will, banking on patriotism to sell AZ vaccines. Now scaring people about that vaccine. Now blame those people for not getting vaccinated. And do all this knowing you could have had Pfizer as an option last year. sameguy
rachelclun Classic scomo
rachelclun Do an article on this
rachelclun Jeebus...how about reporting the facts instead of running a protection racquet for GregHuntMP and the Morrison Government...The 'facts' have been reported elsewhere, not only in the last day or two, months ago by Norman Swan and others. Hunt has people's lives on his hands
rachelclun Stop trying too trend this lol
rachelclun No .. we have a Westminster system. The minister GregHuntMP is responsible
THE_Russell rachelclun Why is the Liberal media arm Nine Costello TV feeding on it's own flesh? Is that media balance?
rachelclun cos they knew it was bullshit and doesnt work,it took them that long to bribe a few doctors
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rachelclun What an absolute disgrace ScottMorrisonMP & GregHuntMP were too busy hiding the truth from Australians - the Gaslighting is unbelievable ItWasNeverARace & we were stooged
rachelclun What’s your take PhillipCoorey
rachelclun Is Pfizer liable for any damages?
rachelclun You mean Greg Hunt and Scott Morrison turned down an offer ….nice try SackHunt SackTheGovernment MorrisonFailure
rachelclun Amazing one email and it bring all the arm chair experts out tell us how the gov was wrong. They had ordered from all but AZ was the main one. Do things changed, still today know one has shown me the pandemic rule book but a lot of people seem to have read it including labor
rachelclun On the the Minister’s instructions
rachelclun If they had a shred of integrity the lot would resign after this …. The biggest fail in Australian politics in decades. Billions of tax dollars wasted. Hundreds of avoidable deaths. And the impact on mental health is unmeasureable.
rachelclun Hunt you mean, not nameless people
rachelclun Breaking? I knew about this months ago... Sigh. ThisIsNotJournalism
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rachelclun Not a chance in hell that it was bureaucrats who made this decision.
rachelclun So we're meant to believe that the Federal bureaucrats made this decision without alerting the responsible minister, PM or CHO. Please pull the other one.
rachelclun ScottMorrisonMP GregHuntMP Resign immediately
rachelclun NOT breaking. We’ve KNOWN this for a few months now. You lot chose to pretend you did not see it. Or know it at that time.
rachelclun Failed at vaccine orders Succeeded at Jobs4mates
rachelclun Pfizer is a criminal corporate entity pushing a poison vaccine like their other poisons !!!!!
call_me_tomasso rachelclun
rachelclun Where was msm Lockdowns Deaths Jobkeeper Billions lost Debt going up and up Putting our money 600m on a gas plant
call_me_tomasso rachelclun ScottyTheBlameShifter giving us scottyslockdown
rachelclun ScottyDoesNothing
rachelclun ... They may have realised that Pfizer was still under Fed investigation and probably will be again.
rachelclun I'm guessing they weren't offering shares package with Pfizer. lnpfailure vaccinebinchicken
rachelclun Because of course minister Mike Hunt was lying
rachelclun Can the Australian population sue LNP govt for lack of due diligence? It was massively negligent in not ordering enough vaccines soon enough AND wants to open up before every person (who wants to) is vaccinated! Class action..seriously why not?
rachelclun Rachel embarrassing to blame bureaucrats
rachelclun We know.
rachelclun Oh dear, i hope they aren’t positioning the first secretary to be the scape goat. The article even names them. Buck has to stop with GHunt
rachelclun why didnt he did you ask ?
rachelclun And this peeps is our money at work ….. they couldn’t be bothered to do their job. Greg Hunt’s way of giving Australians the middle finger. scottymustgo LNPfail COVID19Aus auspol
rachelclun This should be the final nail in ScottyThePfizzer’s proverbial
rachelclun Mr Hunt was personally trialling ivermectin when approached by Pfizer in July 2020. 'He sustained an injury in the 3rd at Randwick & was eating hay at the time.' Mr Hunt will be gelded for improved attitudes & focus. Your supreme commander & current Trump medal holder Clot
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rachelclun This was reported months ago. I saw on tv that Morrison rejected an offer of 4million Pfizer doses. He's been pushing Astrazenica all along. He thought we'd make millions manufacturing it and exporting. NEVER put all of your eggs in one basket, Scotty.
rachelclun If only we had a decent opposition to take these charlatans to task.
rachelclun BREAKING: you’re 6 months late bro. Please try and keep up.
noplaceforsheep rachelclun Both Greg Hunt and Scott Morrison need to go for this. Absolutely criminal negligence. SackHunt MorrisonResign
rachelclun This isn't f*cking 'Breaking' news. Bc of Norman Swan & Kevin Rudd, we've known about this for months! But I'm pretty certain Nine/Fairfax already knew that. So my question is, what is it you are trying to distract us from today? - That's where the real story will be.
rachelclun ScottMorrisonMP GregHuntMP
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rachelclun This is just shocking and should be awake up call for people about these cunning Liberals
rachelclun SackHunt
rachelclun LNPcrimesyndicate
rachelclun Will you still continue to handle the LNP’s publicity for them SMH? MediaCowards
rachelclun Well it wasn’t a race was it? And they deemed Pfizer too expensive and wanted the cheaper AZ
rachelclun Not really 'breaking'...
rachelclun Australia already has a vaccine for the delta variant of COVID19 AustraliaHealth Vaccine
noplaceforsheep rachelclun They're too busy embezzling to govern.
Peter_Fox59 rachelclun Missing the message Vol I Pfizer was requesting a meeting to facilitate Australia fronting the queue Not asking Scomo to personally jump the queue and get the Vaccinated
rachelclun Don't worry we still have 8 more months of rorts to go until they have scrapped the bottom of the coffers and rivers
MSMWatchdog2013 rachelclun
rachelclun bureaucrats who told the bureaucrats what to say❓
rachelclun 💥 Age care Covid debacle on you GregHuntMP 💥 Failing to procure and distribute vaccines for Australians on you GregHuntMP 💥 vaccine pork barrelling on you GregHuntMP. Under your leadership and on your watch if not behest ScottMorrisonMP scottymustgo sackhunt auspol
Peter_Fox59 rachelclun The cost to Australia of this monumental stuff up must be in the billions . The cost to health , emotional pain, education, lives incalculable.
rachelclun Was Pfizer turned down to protect the shares, some in government owned, of the company that manufactured AZ? Deliberate or incompetence. I dunno! auspol
rachelclun So normanswan and MrKRudd were right. Quel surprise.
rachelclun And because of this the over 60s are doomed to only getting AZ. No choice for us.
rachelclun Breaking: Health Minister did not meet with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in mid-2020 and didn’t secure sufficient vaccines MorrisonVaccineCrisis auspol
rachelclun Don’t we know this already?
rachelclun What was the underlying factor? Did PM want trade with UK Liberal PM. Which I'm happy our country does...but when the Pfizer supply was offered at a crucial time as part of an exit plan out of pandemic why did Govt decline an ample supply of Pfizer?
rachelclun So you mean Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt are both wilfully neglectful and incompetent.
rachelclun There was NO vaccine developed in mid-2020. FAKE NEWS.
rachelclun Umm, because were going to make our own vaccine at 1/4 the price. No one knew about the AZ thrombosis thing then.
rachelclun The LNP adopted a deliberate wait-and-fail approach to the pandemic. auspol
rachelclun Never forgive, never forget this, Australia
rachelclun So what’s the election date now that ScottyTheBlameShifter has allowed this to be released under FOI? The PMO would have blocked the FOI request if they’d really wanted to.
billbowtell rachelclun Australia’s government couldn’t even be bothered setting up a proper meeting with Pfizer. What a tragedy for us all. All the dead, all the sick, all the lost businesses, all the lost school days, all the anxiety. All this didn’t need to happen.
rachelclun Crazy. Pfizer was ahead of the pack, wanted to do a deal, and the government made it as hard as possible. Delay in responding Wouldn't sign NDA Wouldn't provide minister No meeting for 5, 6 weeks. This isn't an accident or oversight. This is refusing to do your job.
rachelclun And now it turns out for lasting efficacy AZ is the better vaccine
rachelclun Not really breaking news is it? 🤷♂️
rachelclun Baseball bats = next election.
ian_booth rachelclun Those bureaucrats & their Minister should be given the option to resign immediately, out of respect & honour. Failing that they must be sacked.
rachelclun In 2022, it’s difficult to see why there should NOT be a royal commission with full public hearings into the federal & all state govt’s handling of this entire pandemic. There have been royal commissions into less grave matters. We need learn and prepare for our next crisis.
rachelclun Has anyone lost their job because of this besides us plebs?
rachelclun There is plenty of AstraZeneca, which is overwhelmingly safe and efficacious. Also, easy to store, transport and administer. Just f***ing grow up.
rachelclun Lol. This isn't breaking. It has been reported previously but the government came out and denied it. Happy to see more outlets covering it and it isn't going away.
rachelclun 🥵Why would he care about the rest of us? SCOTT got his pfizer vaccine in FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR!? scottymustgo ScottyFromGaslighting auspol COVID19 🥵🥵🇦🇺🇦🇺 RESIGN SCOTT🤬
rachelclun Why is this breaking news We have known about this for months Ridiculed Norman Swan when he told us about it and even denied it Just another lie
rachelclun 'I have to say: after this, is anybody responsible? Are there any of you who claim responsibility for this? I do not think so. No takers.' -- Greg Hunt
rachelclun How is this breaking? I've known about this for like 6 months
rachelclun I love the fact that the federal government—who have been unnecessarily secretive about Pfizer vaccine allocations—fucked this up because they didn't want to sign a non-disclosure agreement about vaccines with Pfizer.
rachelclun Evidence of more lies from Morrison, Hunt & Co. G 🦋☯️
rachelclun This is why half the country is still in lockdown.
rachelclun Trump had a tee time….
rachelclun Let the truth come out, thanks for nothing LNP
rachelclun Next election vote the dangerous incompetence Morrison Government out EnoughIsEnough auspol
rachelclun Of course they did
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