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| - Last Updated on September 9, 2024 by Nivedita
Quick Take
Several social media posts claim Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla resign from his post because mRNA vaccines are now proven unsafe. We fact-checked and found the claim to be False.
The Claim
Twitter users and Facebook users have shared a video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla claiming mRNA technology was not sufficiently proven when launched for commercial use. The video shows Bourla saying that they convinced him, but he wasn’t sure.
Fact Check
Did Pfizer CEO quit because mRNA vaccines are proven unsafe?
No. Albert Bourla is still the CEO of Pfizer. The video shared by social media users comes from a March 10, 2022, Washington Post Live interview. In this interview, Bourla was talking about his book titled ‘Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible’.
Explaining how the Pfizer vaccine was developed in a short span, Bourla said “I was surprised when they suggested to me that this is the way to go, and I questioned it,” Bourla says in reference to using mRNA technology to create a vaccine against Covid-19. “And I asked them to justify how can you say something like that, but they came, and they were very, very convinced that this is the right way to go.”
He further said, “They felt that the two years of work on mRNA since 2018 together with BioNTech to develop the flu vaccine made them believe that the technology is mature and we are at the cusp of delivering a product.”
Bourla nowhere mentioned resigning from the post or found saying that the mRNA vaccine is dangerous.
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