# COVID-19 Vaccine Profits and Big Pharma’s Influence

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119051180756353202
- Source account: [@ABridgen](https://x.com/ABridgen)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 2026-11-07
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence) Out of respect for you and your show- ... I've brought some facts.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=3) Hm. Would you- If you'd like to actually- No. No.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=7) You just, you just get the fuck out of here. I thought- This is not the place.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=11) No, I thought that you liked facts. No. I, we do. No, they- We love facts.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=13) I love facts. I wouldn't have mentioned it.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=15) I'm English, and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=18) Mm, yeah. But they do pertain to this issue, so may I say some of them? Please, please. Please do. If they inconvenience you- I see- ... I'll, I'll stop saying them.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=25) The pandemic created at least 40 new phar- Big Pharma billionaires.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=28) Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine. Wow.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=34) More than two-thirds of Congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=40) Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Time Magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing the COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=47) And of course, Pfizer made $100 billion- Right. Okay ... in profit in 2022. All right. All right. For, uh...

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=52) And, and may I just mention, finally, and these are, this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=58) The German fund, uh, public, f- uh, funded the BioNtech, uh, vaccine.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=62) When it came to the profits, they took the profits.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=65) When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding. All right.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=67) If you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex- Okay ... benefits from war, where an energy companies benefit from energy crises,

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pyRtY327B0sR/en/covid-19-vaccine-profits-and-big-pharma-s-influence?t=80) you are going to generate- These get... Right ... states of perpetual crisis- Yes ... where the interests of ordinary people- And, and, uh, yes. And- ... separate from the interests of the elites.