Pfizer is being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drug maker of misrepresenting the effectiveness of the widely used COVID-19 vaccine.

The pharmaceutical giant used misleading statistics to promote the vaccine and sought to “intimidate” anyone who questioned the product, according to the lawsuit.

Paxton is focusing on a claim touted by Pfizer in 2020 that its Covid vaccine was 95% effective, leaving the impression that the vaccine “would end the coronavirus pandemic and lift the omnipresent veil of fear and uncertainty from an anxious public.”

“Contrary to Pfizer’s public statements, however, the pandemic did not end,” Paxton said in the suit.

And the pandemic got worse even after people started taking the vaccine, he added.

He said this claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data, and vaccine recipients’ “absolute risk reduction” showed that the vaccine was just 0.85% effective.

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