Pfizer Exec Concedes COVID-19 Vaccine Was Not Tested on Preventing Transmission Before Release

Pfizer Exec Concedes COVID-19 Vaccine Was Never Tested on Preventing Transmission

Oct 12, 2022

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By Jack Phillips

A Pfizer executive said Monday that neither she nor other Pfizer officials knew whether its COVID-19 vaccine would stop transmission before entering the market last year.

Member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, asked during a session: “Was the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market? Did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market?”

Pfizer’s Janine Small, president of international developed markets, said in response: “No … You know, we had to … really move at the speed of science to know what is taking place in the market.”