"Pfizer CEO Albert Burla (sic) is stepping down 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," says a December 10, 2022 tweet sharing a clip of Bourla viewed more than 350,000 times.
The clip quickly spread on Twitter in different languages. Similar claims without the video have also circulated on Facebook here, here and here.
The footage comes from a March 10, 2022 Washington Post Live interview, a full transcript of which can be accessed here.
"I was surprised when they suggested to me that this is the way to go, and I questioned it," Bourla says in reference to using mRNA technology to create a vaccine against Covid-19. "And I asked them to justify how can you say something like that, but they came, and they were very, very convinced that this is the right way to go."
He continues: "They felt that the two years of work on mRNA since 2018 together with BioNTech to develop the flu vaccine made them believe that the technology is mature and we are at the cusp of delivering a product."
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