Posted on 01/28/2023 7:59:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pfizer late Jan. 28 responded to comments from a director at the company about exploring ways to mutate COVID-19 as a method to “preemptively develop new vaccines.”
“In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research,” Pfizer said in a lengthy written statement after days of ignoring queries from The Epoch Times and other outlets.
Pfizer did say that it has conducted research “where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern.”
“This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern. We then make this data available through peer reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required,” the company added.
Pfizer did say it has conducted experiments in a level 3 laboratory.
Pfizer said, in its work developing a treatment for COVID-19, it has “engineered” the COVID-19 virus “to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.”
“In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS-CoV-2 and nirmatrelvir in our secure Biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory to assess whether the main protease can mutate to yield resistant strains of the virus,” Pfizer said. “It is important to note that these studies are required by U.S. and global regulators for all antiviral products and are carried out by many companies and academic institutions in the U.S. and around the world.”
Pfizer produces a COVID-19 treatment called Paxlovid, or nirmatrelvir that is authorized in the United States and some other countries.
In its statement, Pfizer did not dispute that Dr. Jordon Walker, who told a Project Veritas journalist that Pfizer is exploring how to “mutate” the COVID-19 virus, was or is a Pfizer employee.
Professional profiles for Walker, which have since been taken down, listed him as a director of messenger RNA research at the company. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine utilizes messenger RNA. The profiles also listed a Pfizer email address, and an email sent to that address did not bounce back. A receptionist at Pfizer on Thursday also told The Epoch Times that Walker had an internal company profile, but a different receptionist on Friday said there was no listing for the doctor, indicating he might have been terminated after the comments were made public.
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop the messenger RNA technology, said that the experiments Pfizer described met the definition of “gain of function.”
“Pfizer is basically acknowledging that they are doing the same type of gain of function research that Boston University was caught doing, but they are denying that it is gain of function or directed evolution,” Malone wrote on Twitter.
1) Pfizer lawyers did not throw their Director of R&D Operations and Scientific Planning under the bus. 2) there is no denial of what he said. 3) No denial that he is Pfizer staff. 4) Swapping new spike sequences into original Wuhan-1 is technically gain of function research. — Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) January 28, 2023
Malone pointed to Pfizer’s comment about taking the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and using it “to express the spike protein from new variants of concern.”
Gain of function generally describes experiments that aim to increase functions of a virus such as transmissibility and virulence. Walker had said in his comments that the work he was describing was not gain of function, but “directed evolution.”
Researchers with Boston University revealed in 2022 that they had developed a strain of COVID-19 that killed 80 percent of mice infected with it.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supposed to oversee risky research conducted in or funded by the United States but has faced criticism for only reviewing a handful of projects—none since 2019—under the oversight system.
The NIH funded gain of function experiments at the Wuhan laboratory situated near where the first COVID-19 cases were identified, and officials have promised to keep funding research in China.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had written a letter to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla referring to Walker’s remarks and questioning whether the company has or is planning to mutate the COVID-19 virus.
Walker’s comments “are alarming,” Rubio wrote in the Jan. 26 missive.
In a notice sent to Project Veritas, YouTube cited its medical misinformation policy, which bars “claims about COVID-19 vaccination that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO).”
It wasn’t clear which authorities specifically YouTube was relying upon to rebut the video.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, did not respond to a request for comment.
O’Keefe noted that the claims in the video were made by a Pfizer director.
Project Veritas was given a “strike,” which prevents the organization from taking actions like uploading new videos for one week. A second strike would block such actions for two weeks and a third strike in a 90-day period would result in a permanent removal of the group’s account, YouTube warned.
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PFE stock price is down 1% only. When it starts to drop like a rock the company will respond.
How Fauci-esque of them. I know that I am impressed by this denial of what their Director of Research, Dr. Jordon Walker said previously.
Oh excuse me... Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Dr. Jordan Walker. If you can’t trust a flaming gay pervert who can you trust?
bkmk
It seems like “gain of function” studies is an arm of a larger set of experiments. It cannot be hidden by carefully constructed explanations.
Pfizer needs to be sued and fined into bankruptcy. Criminal charges , if applicable, need to be pursued and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for ALL involved, including government officials, and private sector actors.
The average stockholder is probably completely unaware of that rip-roaring misadventure of the Pfizer exec. who was tricked by Veritas. Hopefully, word will leak out over the next few months. Even Fox News may be ignoring or downplaying the implications of that story.
Doc J and Pfizer owe me Three Years of
Misery at immeasurable cost.
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What Say the World?
ie Damage Control
Is Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, or any of his minions volunteering to be put on trial for the millions of folks harmed by the COVID-19 vaccine or the many booster shots for same?
Here’s Bourla at the WEF being hounded by a reporter who asks embarrassing questions. Bourla did not answer any of the questions:
Pfizer...one purpose; Murder people and make money!!
So, it’s not “gain of function” research it’s ‘Directed Evolution”.
It couldn’t be gain of function because that’s illegal!
How’s that for gaslighting!
I thought they were trying to Mutate COVID-19 from the start
90% effective?
Why would it go down?
What percentage of Americans will see this?
It’s playoff season bro!…
One of the videos is either still up or has been restored to Project Veritas on YouTube…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5n7RRKgD
This particular one is hilarious.
Outstanding!
They don't waste any time. It brings to mind that famous Upton Sinclair quote:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Interesting!
Go to this thread, and click the link of the video image that is embedded in the parent post article as integrated by SeekAndFind. That’s still working, at least for me. After I had opened the link, is the URL that I copied and pasted into this thread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4126709/posts
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