CLAIM: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has resigned from the company and admits that mRNA technology is not safe.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Bourla never said that the vaccine technology is unsafe nor that he is resigning. Pfizer confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press that Bourla is still serving as the pharmaceutical company’s chairman and CEO.
THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing baseless claims suggesting that Bourla resigned from Pfizer and acknowledged that mRNA technology is unsafe.
“Pfizer CEO Albert Burla is stepping down,” one Twitter post states, misspelling the CEO’s name, “and now says the mRNA technology was not sufficiently proven when they launched … He says they convinced him, but he wasn’t sure. He admits it’s not safe.” The post had been retweeted more than 10,000 times as of Monday.
The post features a clip of a live video interview with Bourla from the Washington Post on March 10, 2022, where he discusses Pfizer’s decision to utilize mRNA technology for the COVID-19 vaccine.
He says Pfizer had “less experience” with mRNA when it set out to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, but not that it was unproven. And at no point during the interview does Bourla say that mRNA technology is harmful, nor that he is stepping down from the company, as the social media posts claim.
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