December 21, 2021

EP. 136 — Does Pfizer Have Too Much Power? with Hannah Kuchler

Even though the COVID-19 vaccines were born of publicly-funded research, our privatized medical system has left them to for-profit companies like Pfizer to distribute, giving these private companies massive power in a time of great need. On the show this week to dive into the ways Pfizer has used and abuse its power is Financial Times global pharmaceutical correspondent Hannah Kuchler.

Transcript

Speaker 1 [00:00:22] Hello and welcome to Factually, I’m Adam Conover. I can’t thank you enough for being here. This is going to be our last new episode of the year. Next week, we’ll take a break and run a rerun. So you’ll have something to listen to, if you need something while you’re puttering around the house with your family. You got nothing to do, you got to do the dishes for the fourth time in a day because you’ve all been cooking and eating so much. We’ll have an episode here for you to listen to, but it’s going to be a rerun of one of our outstanding episodes of the past. I hope, though, that during the next couple of weeks you’re able to take some time off, you’re able to relax and recharge in the way you need to. I hope you’re able to keep your family and your friends safe from the Omicron surge that’s happening now, across the United States and many parts of the world. Please keep those masks on and get

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