After a video asking him to apologize, watched by millions.. Should the Pfizer manager ask for forgiveness for the “ineffectiveness” of the Corona vaccine?

While the director of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, Albert Bourla, was walking in a street in the Swiss city of Davos, two journalists asked him to apologize for the ineffectiveness of the company's vaccine in preventing corona infection, in a video that has achieved more than 17 million views since it was published on Wednesday, January 18, 2023.

Bourla, who was in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum, only answered, "Thank you very much," and then wished the journalist a nice day.

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After the video spread, it became clear that the two journalists who demanded Bourla apologize for the ineffectiveness of the Pfizer-produced Biontech vaccine were working for the Canadian website Rebel News, which is described as right-wing.

Ezra Levant - one of the Rebel News journalists - said: "Mr. Bourla, can I ask you when did you know that vaccines do not stop the transmission of the Corona virus? Did you know that before you said it publicly?"

Then Levant asked a question about Pfizer keeping a secret about vaccines: "You said it's 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%, but now we know that vaccines don't stop transmission. Why keep that secret?"

As for the other journalist, Avi Yamini, he said, "Is it time to apologize to the world, sir? To return the sums to the countries that borrowed their money to buy a vaccine that does not work. An ineffective vaccine. Aren't you ashamed of what you did in the last two years? Years?"

Levant also asked Bourla questions about the relationship between the vaccine and myocarditis.

Did Pfizer really deceived the world?

Returning to the scientific studies, we try to answer the allegations of the journalists:

First: Vaccines and preventing the spread of infection

Neither Pfizer nor any of the companies producing coronavirus vaccines have claimed that their vaccines prevent the spread of infection.

According to a Reuters report, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not request data from vaccine trials regarding the impact on virus transmission, as a Pfizer spokesman indicated that regulators did not ask for an answer to the question about the spread of infection in the original trials of the vaccine.

As for the European Medicines Agency, it also did not request data on transmission, when it set the conditions for obtaining a conditional marketing authorization for the Covid vaccine.

However, within months of the vaccines being on the market, researchers in the UK found that some vaccines - including Pfizer's - reduce transmission of the virus.

Evidence continued to emerge in 2021 that vaccines based on mRNA technology - such as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines - prevented infection and transmission of the virus, but with the emergence of the "delta" strain of the Corona virus that year, in addition to the diminishing immunity from the vaccines that were delivered at the beginning of the year. Decreased protection against infection and transmission, although not eliminated, was observed.

Second: the effectiveness of the vaccine

The journalist claimed that Pfizer claimed that its vaccines were “100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%.” However, the pharmaceutical company - like other vaccine companies - presented different percentages, so the Pfizer vaccine, according to its trial data, was 95% effective. .

Third: Is the vaccine really ineffective?

The Pfizer vaccine - like some other vaccines - is very effective. Since its introduction, the death rate among people with corona has decreased significantly, and the rate of hospitalization has decreased as a result of complications from the virus.

According to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases in June 2022, researchers found that corona vaccines prevented 19.8 million deaths from corona in 185 countries and regions between December 8, 2020 and December 8. The first is 2021.

And the World Health Organization confirms that getting vaccinated against Corona can save your life.

Vaccines provide powerful protection against serious illness, hospitalization, and death.

There is also some evidence that getting vaccinated reduces the possibility of transmitting the virus to others, which means that your decision to get the vaccine also protects those around you.

Fourth: Vaccines and myocarditis

Myocarditis is a rare side effect after receiving the Corona vaccine, but its probability is less than the possibility of myocarditis after infection with Corona.

According to the American Heart Association, a large study in England showed that the overall risk of developing myocarditis is significantly higher immediately after infection with “Covid-19”, compared to the weeks after vaccination against the Corona virus.

The study, which included about 43 million people, was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (Circulation) in August 2022.

"We found that across this large data set, all of the population of England who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 during the 12-month period of the pandemic, when COVID-19 vaccines first became available," said researcher Martina Paton, a statistician at Oxford University. Their risk of developing myocarditis after vaccination against COVID-19 was small compared to their risk of developing it after infection with COVID-19.