By all means, not treating each vaccine as a product on its own merits and instead wholesale giving them a pass because they were all vaccines was a bad idea. Some corporations used it to rush to corner the market with rushed products that had much more side effects than others. Pfizer (BioNtech) and Oxford (now Astra Zeneca I think, after changing name 3-4 times due to the backlash they got from the side effects) are the foremost offenders. Incidentally, Pfizer lobby was the strongest - FDA avoided approving any other vaccine than Pfizer until the quarantine ended, giving Pfizer uncontested dominance of the US market. They weren't able to prevent all competitors in the Eu, but from how the current Eu commission president (leyen) who oversaw the vaccine effort during covid is under investigation for her undisclosed secret correspondence with Pfizer lobbyists, they seem to have done a lot of work there too.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pfizergate-covid-vaccine-sca...
Whoa I didn't know that it had reached the level of 'pfizergate' until I googled to post a reference...