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"Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș accused President Ursula von der Leyen of lying and asked when the unredacted contracts signed with Pfizer and Moderna for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines would be published, during a session on health emergency preparedness in the wake of the recent hantavirus outbreak in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday. "Dear commissioner, you talked about the Hantavirus vaccine, which will require another set of contracts. But when will you publish the unredacted contracts signed by Ursula von der Leyen with Pfizer and Moderna?" MEP Cristian Terheș asked. Terhes claimed that the EU had procured vaccines over the required threshold, costing the bloc billions. "Ursula von der Leyen said that the anti-COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. She lied," he added. Between 2020 between 2021, and 2023, the EU Commission under Ursula von der Leyen signed contracts with several pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, and Astra Zeneca, to acquire COVID-19 vaccines. After several MEPs asked the Commission for access to these contracts, in the name of the public interest, the Commission published the contracts in a redacted version. During a 2022 session of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Pfizer executive Janine Small confirmed that the vaccine was not tested for its ability to prevent transmission prior to its rollout. The session comes after a hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged expedition vessel MV Hondius during a voyage that departed from Argentina. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported 10 hantavirus cases, including three deaths of passengers on the ship - but has insisted it is not the start of another COVID-like pandemic."
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