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Pfizer admits 'engineering' Covid in lab studies to ensure its antiviral drug works on new variants — but pharma giant insists tests were not 'gain of function’ and did not pose risk to public
Daily Mail ^ | 30 January 2023

Posted on 01/30/2023 1:49:42 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Pfizer has admitted it ‘engineered’ mutated Covid viruses in lab tests to ensure its vaccine and drugs remained effective against new variants – but the company denies the experiments posed a risk to the public.

In a press release sneaked out on Friday night, the pharma giant finally responded to an undercover video that went viral last week in which a supposed director at the firm claimed the company was exploring 'directed evolution' research on monkeys to make the virus 'more potent'.

Jordon Trishton Walker, who appears to have been a senior staffer in Pfizer's research and development division, was caught making the explosive claim in a sting by the right-wing activist group Project Veritas.

Pfizer flatly denied conducting gain of function or directed evolution research on monkeys but admitted that ‘in a limited number of cases’ it altered the virus and tested new mutations against its Covid antiviral drug Paxlovid in Petri dishes.

The New York-based firm claims the experiments are essential to get ahead of drug-resistant strains and says similar tests are carried out by 'many companies and academic institutions in the US and around the world'.

But DailyMail.com spoke to several independent virologists and epidemiologists who were split about whether Pfizer's experiments posed a risk to the public.

Professor Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, has been an outspoken advocate of the lab leak theory, the idea Covid escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arrestbourla; bigpharma; covid; pfizer; warcrimes
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21 posted on 01/30/2023 2:40:22 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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…to ensure its antiviral drug works on new variants…

Well, the joke’s on them because these “vaxxes” don’t work on any variant…

22 posted on 01/30/2023 2:46:45 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Seeing what an idiot Jordan Tristan Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development- Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning is makes me more nervous than anything. Most young male gay perverts have many forms of mental illness and lack good judgement and any form of ethics.


23 posted on 01/30/2023 2:59:20 PM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

bkmk


24 posted on 01/30/2023 3:26:28 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

“We’re not doing ‘gain-of-function experiments’.”

“We’re just making viruses more deadly, more invasive, and more contagious.”

“In view of that we prefer the term ‘more function experiments’.”

“It tracks better with focus groups.”


25 posted on 01/30/2023 4:09:01 PM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Hiddigeigei

The greediest ones will behave like the sharks they are-start advertising the minute there is blood in the water-I hope plenty of people join the fun and get many billions...


26 posted on 01/30/2023 4:38:28 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Doublespeak.


27 posted on 01/30/2023 6:30:12 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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animal-house-blow-job
28 posted on 01/30/2023 6:36:16 PM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla looks like a serial killer.


29 posted on 01/30/2023 6:47:27 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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