Yeah, I mean, these are high-risk movies because you're taking on big companies, huge companies, Merck, for example, the American government, and you're calling them out. You stand to get sued.

Vanguard holds 9.18% of Merck stock. BlackRock, 5.13%, and State Street, 4.57%. Sure. Even combined, they don't represent a controlling interest.

Conversely, the Merck drugs testing is aimed at seeing if they can develop a preventative type of medication. This trial is going to involve people who live with someone who has a lab-confirmed symptomatic case of COVID. And the goal is to determine if the drug has an effect on whether or not people get it at all.

Remember, why did Merck pull out three months ago? They said you cannot produce a safe vaccine for the coronavirus. If you do, it causes autoimmune responses and allergic reactions in a large number of people. Because they said, we don't care if you waive lab tests. We're doing lab tests. And even corrupt Merck said, we suggest you don't take vaccines and you just get herd immunity.

Merck had to pull their vaccine three weeks ago because it was making people sick and killing them.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, last Tuesday seems like 100 years ago, Merck, the largest pharma company in the world, says we are ending our vaccine program. It does not work. We believe you cannot make a vaccine that works to cure the common cold, and that's what this is, except it's chimera with even more mutations, so it's even more impossible.

Merck! It's pulled its two vaccines because of major health problems and bad reactions. Both their mRNA vaccine and their regular vaccine that had a bizarre measles delivery system.

Alex isn't wrong about the underlying story here, and that is that Merck did in fact abandon its attempts to create two experimental coronavirus vaccines this week. However, the message of this story is completely misrepresented by Alex into being anti-vax. In reality, a story like this should give people even more confidence about the vaccines that are widely available, because this clearly demonstrates that there are some vaccines that don't make the cut. These two that were developed by Merck are not the same ones that were made by Pfizer or Moderna, so pointing at this story as a way to make those vaccines look bad makes no sense. But that's exactly what Alex is doing. Alex is also just lying when he says that Merck decided to stop pursuing these vaccines because of bad reactions. From NPR, quote, Merck is halting development of its two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, saying that while the drugs seem to be safe, they didn't generate enough of an immune response to effectively protect people against the coronavirus.