Sackler family expressed fears they could be targeted in lawsuits over OxyContin a DECADE before being sued for fueling the opioid crisis and transferring $10.7billion from their company Purdue Pharma
Court filings unsealed Friday showed members of the Sackler family discussing potential future lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis as far back as 2007
The family have long denied that the $10.7billion they transferred from Purdue Pharma was an unlawful attempt to shield assets in anticipation of litigation
The significant transfers were made between 2008 and 2017
David Sackler, who served on Purdue s board from 2012 to 2018, testified in Congress last week that neither he, nor others, anticipated vast litigation
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In the four days that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was treated for COVID-19 at Georgetown University Hospital last week, more than 7,000 Americans died from the disease.
Yet Giuliani, who is now President Donald Trump s personal attorney, was healthy enough to call WABC Radio from the hospital to make an appalling assertion: “If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital frankly.”
Life-and-death situations bring out the best in some people and the worst in others, particularly those who would emulate the men who tried to elbow aside the women and children when the Titanic was sinking and the lifeboats were filling. The coronavirus has already taken a disproportionate toll on lower-income people who can t work from home, and blatant favoritism in treatment is a recipe for social unrest.
Americans have made no secret of their skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines this year, with fears of political interference and a warp speed timeline blunting confidence in the shots. As recently as September, nearly half of U.S. adults said they didn t intend to be inoculated.
But with two promising vaccines primed for release, likely within weeks, experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand. People talk about the anti-vaccine people being able to kind of squelch uptake. I don t see that happening, Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccinologist with Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, told viewers of a recent JAMA Network webinar. This, to me, is more like the Beanie Baby phenomenon. The attractiveness of a limited edition.
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