Thu Oct 5, 2023 – 3:51 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – One of the world’s largest “Big Pharma” companies is denying blame while pointing a finger at a manufacturing company based in the United Kingdom after its product, Remdesivir, was found to have been contaminated with glass particles that risked serious adverse events such as stroke and death.
This is a classic case of David v. Goliath: An elderly man who suffered two strokes and a leg amputation after receiving the contaminated drug is challenging one of the world’s largest corporations that claims it did no wrong.
The finger pointing began after a Michigan Circuit Court judge ruled that Gilead Sciences Inc. is not shielded by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, which was intended to legally protect drug manufacturers from liability if individuals experience physical harm from its products.
The PREP Act of 2005 “authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to limit legal liability for losses relating to the administration of medical countermeasures such as diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines,” according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Near the beginning of the pandemic, the Trump administration’s HHS invoked the Act in declaring
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