Pfizer CEO runs away from Covid questions in Davos

Albert Bourla, Chief Executive Officer of US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, encountered a series of tough questions about the efficacy of its Covid vaccine on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum meeting, but he repeatedly ignored the queries and a video on it has gone viral.

A Rebel News journalist was seen asking a lot of uncomfortable questions to the Pfizer CEO. Among the questions, he asked the CEO why the manufacturer kept the fact secret that its vaccine did not stop transmission of the virus. The Pfizer chief time and again ducked these questions, only to say “Thank you very much” and “Have a nice day”.

In the video, the journalist was heard saying, “You (Pfizer) said it was 100 per cent effective, then 90 per cent, then 80 per cent, then 70 per cent, but we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission. Why do you keep that secret?”

The journalist kept on following the Pfizer chief even though he did not solicit a response. In another question, he was heard asking whether it was time to apologise to the world and to give refunds to the countries that bought vaccines that did not yield results.

Going back to the initial days of the commencement of the vaccination drive, the US based pharma firm Pfizer sought an indemnity bond that will exempt it from legal claims in case there are any adverse effects from the vaccine.

Another reporter joins the first one to ask Bourla if he will be refunding all the countries that procured the Pfizer vaccine as it was ineffective and causing deaths due to myocarditis. They further ask him if he will be issuing an apology to the public since he “made millions on the backs of people’s entire livelihoods”.

The reporters also question if Bourla is worried about product liability and “young men dropping dead of heart attacks every day”. They also ask him if he should be criminally charged and had personally “made money” off the vaccine.

“How many boosters do you think it will take for you to be happy enough with your earnings?” says one of the reporters, while the other one asks him: “Are you used to only sympathetic media, so you don’t know how to answer any questions?”

On Thursday, Bourla said the biggest challenge his company and other vaccine-makers faced during the pandemic was negotiating the politics.

Sitting on a panel about pandemic preparedness at the World Economic Forum, he said mask-wearing, vaccine efficacy or questions about delivering the vaccines were all politicised and were constant obstacles for vaccine-makers. He further said protectionism as a result of fear meant the governments closed down borders, making it difficult to export vaccines or bring in raw materials needed to make them.