A video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ignoring questions on COVID-19 vaccines preventing transmission has gone viral. Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!
Viral Video : Pfizer CEO Ignores Questions On Transmission!
A video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ignoring questions on COVID-19 vaccines preventing transmission has gone viral.
Here is a rough transcript of what was said. It’s really long, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts.
Ezra Levant : Mr. Bourla, can I ask you – when did you know the vaccines did not stop transmission? How long did you know that before saying it publicly?
Albert Bourla : Thank you very much.
Ezra Levant : To that question, I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn’t stop transmission, but why did you keep it secret?
Ezra Levant : You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%, but we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission. Why do you keep that secret?
Albert Bourla : Have a nice day.
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Why Pfizer CEO ignored vaccine transmission questions!
This is yet another example of misinformation created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the facts you need to know.
COVID-19 vaccines were never meant to stop transmission
The COVID-19 vaccines, whether from Pfizer or any other pharmaceutical company, were designed to prevent hospitalisation and death from COVID-19.
Prevention of transmission would have been a nice bonus, but it was never the primary goal of any COVID-19 vaccine. And how do we know that?
Simple – there were only three endpoints in the Phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccines:
- protection against symptomatic infection
- protection against severe disease
- protection against death
All vaccines – whether Pfizer or otherwise – were never designed or required to prevent transmission of COVID-19.
That was precisely what all COVID-19 vaccines aimed for, and that was what all Phase 3 trial results show. Here is a table I created from the initial Phase 3 trials of the major vaccines in March 2021:
COVID-19 Vaccine | Protection Against | ||
Symptomatic Infection |
Severe Disease |
Death | |
Pfizer Comirnaty | 95.0% | 100% | 100% |
Gamaleya Sputnik V | 91.6% | 100% | 100% |
Moderna mRNA-1273 | 94.1% | 100% | 100% |
AstraZeneca AZD1222 | 62% ~ 90% | 100% | 100% |
Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV | 79% ~ 86% | 90% | 100% |
Sinovac Biotech | 50.65% | 83.7% | 100% |
J&J Janssen COVID-19 | 66.0% | 85% | 100% |
CanSino Biologics | 65.7% | 90.98% | 100% |
Pfizer CEO did not claim COVID-19 vaccine prevents transmission
On April 1, 2021, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla posted about a small South African trial in which 800 people vaccinated with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine did not get infected.
Although he could have been much clearer, he did not say that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine prevents transmission. He later clarified that it only shows that the vaccine produced a “robust neutralising antibody response” to a specific variant.
800 participants enrolled in South Africa with 0 cases of #COVID19 observed in the vaccinated group. Of the cases observed the majority were confirmed to be of the B.1.351 lineage, the prevalent strain in South Africa.
These data support previous results from immunogenicity studies demonstrating a robust neutralizing antibody response to the B.1.351 variant.
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It is quite impossible to prevent transmission of COVID-19
Anti-vaccination activists are harping on the prevention of transmission, because it’s a red herring – they know that it is quite impossible to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is primarily a respiratory virus that spreads by droplets and aerosols, but it is highly contagious, and can infect people through their eyes and mouths, and even through fomites (contaminated surfaces) – albeit, this is relatively rare.
The point is – vaccines are not force fields that repel the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They are basically training camps that teach our own immune system how to identify the virus, so they can make their own antibodies against it.
Even in a fully-vaccinated person, the antibodies only work after the virus enters the bloodstream. The antibodies cannot block or repel the virus, which is why the vaccine trials looked at preventing “symptomatic infections” and not preventing “infections”.
Similarly, the immune systems of vaccinated people are capable of preventing the virus from causing serious harm, but they can only partially block transmission by preventing the virus from replicating as much as it would normally be capable of.
The immune systems of vaccinated people, unfortunately, cannot do anything about virus particles that get inhaled into the lungs and then exhaled into the environment in respiratory droplets and aerosols.
I should point out that “natural immunity” from a prior COVID-19 infection cannot block or prevent transmission of COVID-19 either. So why should anyone insist that vaccines, whether Pfizer or otherwise, must prevent transmission of COVID-19?
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COVID-19 vaccines are effective
Regardless of what the two men who questioned Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla may claim, the truth is – COVID-19 vaccines have proven to be effective in preventing severe disease and death from COVID-19 infections.
That is how most of the world was able to reopen without COVID-infected patients swamping hospitals and ICUs, as we saw throughout 2020 and early 2021.
Yes, fully-vaccinated people are still getting infected by COVID-19, but they no longer need to be hospitalised, and most of them no longer die from a COVID-19 infection.
Again, COVID-19 vaccines were designed to prevent severe illness and death, not transmission or infection. They have done an excellent job in those aspects.
COVID-19 vaccine efficacy changes against variants
Like the influenza virus, the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates rapidly – every infected person is literally a virus factory that is capable of producing new variants.
New virus variants may differ enough that the antibodies created by our own immune system may not attach to them properly.
This “immune escape” problem exists for people who obtained “natural immunity” through a COVID-19 infection, as much as those who are fully-vaccinated.
Each new variant is like an army that has learned to adapt to the battlefield, which is why the vaccines’ efficacy appear to “drop” with each variant.
It does not mean the vaccines do not work as advertised. Those vaccines still maintain the same efficacy against the ancestral COVID-19 virus that they were all tested against. It’s just that the antibodies they trigger may be less capable of attaching properly to the newer variants.
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Protection from natural immunity is reduced against variants too
Antibodies created by our immune system from a prior COVID-19 infection – the “natural immunity” promoted by anti-vaccination activists, are also less effective against new variants.
That’s why people with natural immunity can and still do get infected again and again with new variants of COVID-19.
That is why it is important to develop new versions of the vaccines to deal with new COVID-19 variants that develop over time.
Sure, you can improve your immunity by repeatedly getting infected by new variants of COVID-19, but why not give your immune system a head start by getting the improved bivalent vaccines that are designed to better handle the Omicron variants?
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