Pfizer CEO Made “Misleading” Statements On Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19
Post by Tyler Durden | Written by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has made “misleading” and unsubstantiated statements on the merit of giving COVID-19 vaccines to young children, according to a case report published by a UK pharmaceutical watchdog on Jan. 27.
During an interview with the BBC published on Dec. 2, 2021, Bourla was asked whether he believed it was likely that 5- to 11-year-olds in the UK and Europe would be vaccinated against COVID-19 and whether it was a good idea.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in Davos, Switzerland, on May 25, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
The interview was published after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for young children, but the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), didn’t approve the product for the same age group until Dec. 22, 2021.
While acknowledging that it was up to the UK authorities to decide whether or not to approve and deploy the vaccines, Bourla replied, “I believe it’s a very good idea.”
He cited disruptions in education and the potential of developing so-called long-COVID, saying, “so there is no doubt in my mind about the benefits completely are in favour of doing it.”
Syringes in front of displayed Biontech and Pfizer logos on Nov. 10, 2020. (Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters)
Following complaints from UsForThem—a children’s welfare campaign group founded in response to the COVID-19 lockdowns—a panel from the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) ruled that Bourla’s statements breached a number of rules in the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) code of practice.
After Pfizer appealed against the ruling, an appeal board upheld five counts of breaches of three ABPI codes that require information and claims to be accurate, balanced, capable of substantiation, not raising unfounded hopes of successful treatment, and not be misleading with respect to the safety of the product.
The PMCPA described Bourla’s statements as being of a “strong unqualified nature.” It also said they inferred there was “no need to be concerned about potential side-effects of vaccination in healthy children aged 5-11” and that the implication was “misleading and incapable of substantiation.”
The PMCPA said it has received an undertaking from Pfizer to prevent similar breaches in the future.
Code breakers are charged for administrative costs, but the self-regulatory body does not have the power to impose fines or other legal sanctions.
Bourla was initially found to have also breached the code for promoting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the 5–11 age group when it was not authorised by the MHRA, but the appeal board overturned the ruling, agreeing with Pfizer that its CEO was asked a specific question and it was not unreasonable to talk about the issue in principle. The board also noted that two other COVID-19 vaccines were also under investigation for the age group.
The appeal board also overturned previous rulings that said Pfizer had failed to maintain high standards and brought discredit upon the industry.
Most Serious Rulings
Pfizer didn’t respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment. In a previous statement to The Telegraph in November 2022, when the newspaper obtained the unpublished ruling, a spokesman for Pfizer said the company was “committed to the highest levels of integrity in any interaction with the public.”
“We are pleased the UK’s PMCPA Appeal Board found Pfizer to have maintained high standards and upheld confidence in our industry, the two most serious rulings in this complaint from a UK campaign group,” the statement reads.
“In the UK, we have always endeavoured to follow the principles and letter of our industry Code of Practice throughout. We will review the case report in detail when we receive it, to inform future activity,” it added.
Speaking to The Epoch Times on Tuesday, Ben Kingsley, head of legal affairs at UsForThem, said he was “thrilled” the regulator ultimately agreed with them that the Pfizer CEO’s statements were misleading and unsubstantiated after the pharmaceutical giant opposed their claims “with all of the resources at its disposal” throughout the process.
Commenting on Pfizer’s previous statement on the ruling, Kingsley said the group “found it quite surprising” that Pfizer would consider the rulings about maintaining high standards and upholding confidence in the industry the “most serious” of all.
“I think to the average member of the public, we’d regard misleading us about the safety of their product to be plenty more serious than bringing the repute of the pharmaceutical industry down,” he said.
“So I think it tells you something about the mindset and the priorities of pharma executives that they regard the abuse of the industry as being a more serious matter than misleading the public.”
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I agree that the virus doesn’t exist and has no physical origins, Wuhan or elsewhere. If common sense weren’t enough, the full video of Event 201 should convince any rational individual that the WEF is truly a creepy organization with no respect for….anyone.
There was never a ‘pandemic’ – COVID-19 means “Certificate od Vaccination and Identification 2019”- Pfizer is Pharma are deceivers and make Billions of ignorance and deception.
Sars-Cov2 “virus” is fictitious and it doesn’t exist – there is no mRNA or ‘technology’ in the vaccines, just dangerous toxins, again they are deceiving the world.
What they call a “virus” is nothing more then dead cellular debris, that is NOT the cause of disease.
It’s not contagious, dead and dormant cell debris will vanish outside the body, it wont last it’s so small – even in billions of quantities it’s not infectious it’s impossible.
Pfizer said the company was “committed to the highest levels of integrity in any interaction with the public.”
That’s rich from a company the is known for fraud and paying billions in compensation in 2009.
They sre murderers and should aal go to proson for life.
Does anyone see how ridiculous their claims are, ‘safe and effective’ for a disease that doesn’t exist.
Claiming the jab is good for 5-11 years old is a vicious lie, it’s dangerous for everyone, old and young.
So many people died from these jabs, and the world is in cognitive dissonance mode, where is the Law? where is justice? just incredible what is going on – and still they push mandates and boosters.
And finally, the world has a pandemic of liars and sociopath’s like Bourla, Fauci and the WHO – who make billions of the suffering of people.