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Title: Pfizer Responds After Director Says Company Is Developing Ways To Mutate COVID-19
Source: zerohedge
URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ ... eveloping-ways-mutate-covid-19
Published: Jan 28, 2023
Author: Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
Post Date: 2023-01-28 17:26:30 by Esso
Keywords: None
Views: 385
Comments: 7

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.

Malone
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.

[Tweet text] 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.

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.

YouTube Takes Down Video
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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#1. To: Esso (#0)

Is that crazy nigger you posted the other day part of this? Hell, I think I have a case against (it) based on shut the fuck up you crazy nigger!

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2023-01-28   18:18:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar, 4um (#1)

Is that crazy nigger you posted the other day part of this?

Yes sir, that's affirm. Welcome to the party.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2023-01-28   18:20:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#2)

Can I be called as a hostile witness? I'll try to act right, but no promises :)

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2023-01-28   18:22:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso (#3) (Edited)

Back in the 1990's, the guy I worked for occasionally had to take us programmers to meetings to prove we knew the material. He would tell us "Act right, you guys" because he knew we were not businessmen, we wre engineers. That could have queered the whole deal, from a kike perspective. Fortunatly, science/math won, and now I personally control something like 40% of global healthcare transactions. :)

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2023-01-28   18:30:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Dakmar (#4)

I just told the story of Bunky on the "Odds of dying" thread at ZH.

I had an acquaintance die from winning the Hoosier Lottery shortly after it started years ago. He won a million dollars on the TeeVee show they had years ago, maybe the late 80s or early 90s.

He moved from NE IN to Baltimore and drank himself to death less than a year later. His nickname was Bunky, I don't remember his real name. He was a pretty unremarkable fellow.

Gawd, he was so full of shit.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2023-01-28   18:36:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Esso (#2)

Where are those radiated salmon eggs I ordered? Do I need to call my lawyer, Mr Nathan Thurm, again?

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2023-01-28   19:01:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Esso (#0)

It would take a tiny minority of people acting as one organism to wipe out every last psychopath and sociopath controlling the world.

It would take such a small group to move silently and swiftly through the population of humanity to where you would never even notice the absence of tyranny until one day you no longer heard fear inducing news. If the media only promoted the feel good stories of the day and there were no coming edicts from the unelected tyrants, you might start realizing that they were gone, dead, and in the ground just like their plans to destroy the human race.

A small group, educated, and willing to pull a trigger. It’s what our special forces should be doing actually.

"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2023-01-28   22:32:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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