NEW YORK (VINnews) — Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla spoke with The Financial Times about his company’s decision to choose Israel as the sample country for checking the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by his country.
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Bourla praised former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s conduct during the interview:
“The thing that became clear very quickly was Netanyahu’s level of proficiency and control. He just knew everything. He would call me every half hour and ask, ‘What about the young people? How do they respond to the vaccine? What about the South African variant? What are you doing about it?” Burla said, adding that “I am also sure he thought to himself: ‘It can help me politically.’ It turned out to be a wrong calculation, I guess, given that Netanyahu lost power.”
Bourla said that he had chosen Israel because of its relatively small population size and impressive electronic data collection capability. Pfizer agreed to provide vaccines for the entire population in return for data on the effectiveness of the vaccine.
Bourla also recollected a conversation he had at the time with the development department of German biotech company Biontech, in which the data indicated the efficacy of more than 95% of the vaccine developed. “I did not believe, I thought I did not hear well,” the CEO admitted.
Burla told a reporter, David Crowe, during lunch at a Greek restaurant in New York that he had heard that “in Tel Aviv, glasses are being raised for Pfizer’s life.”
On Thursday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Burla, and asked him to speed up the approval for the vaccination of children under the age of 12.
The two discussed the immunization campaign with the third vaccine in Israel – the first country in the world to start doing so. The Prime Minister asked Pfizer’s CEO to speed up the regulatory approval process for vaccines for children under 12. Pfizer’s CEO told the prime minister that he sees great importance in the possibility of vaccinating children, and that he is doing and will do his best to speed up the process.
Did he get the vaccine? Or is he still waiting for his turn?
Sure, Pfizer has no alternative motives like billions of dollars. Sure let’s all get the booster every few months like morons cause Fauci said.
Basically he is Happy that isreal allowed him to use its State as a Guinea Pig for the rest of the world. And the population went along like sheep’s. now he wants to inject the kids don’t be fooled.
The anti-vaccination crowd, with their online misleading and false information, has convinced millions not to take the vaccine, resulting in needless deaths and suffering. According to their philosophy, nobody should be vaccinated against polio, whooping cough, diptheria, measles, mumps, tetanus, etc. If we listened to that crowd years ago, smallpox would never have been wiped off the face of the earth.
Yes Bibi was a whizz. We lost a very capable bright leader thanks to stupidity and fake news