by Jill Erzen, Childrens Health Defense:
Drug industry executives are lashing out as U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tightens vaccine standards, re-examines childhood schedules and demands what he calls gold-standard science. “I’m seriously frustrated,” Pfizer’s CEO said of Kennedy’s changes, which are cutting U.S. vaccine sales and slowing new trials.
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Vaccine industry executives are publicly blaming U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for tanking stock prices, declining vaccine sales in the U.S. and their reluctance to invest in clinical trials for new vaccines.
Asked what would need to change to move vaccine discussions forward, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla answered: “The secretary of health,” The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Bourla has emerged as Kennedy’s most vocal critic, calling his approach “anti-science.”
Speaking at a WSJ event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bourla said conversations with Kennedy collapse as soon as vaccines come up.
“I have very productive discussions when it comes to cancer cures. … It’s a different world when you start discussing vaccines,” he said. “There’s almost like a religion there.”
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has a public meltdown at the World Economic Forum over growing numbers of people refusing vaccines, calling it a “new religion.”
He says he’s deeply concerned and frustrated, blasting what he describes as religion-driven, anti-science rhetoric.
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At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, Bourla warned that Kennedy’s influence is driving down vaccination rates and raising disease risk.
“I’m seriously frustrated,” Bourla told reporters, according to Reuters. “What is happening has zero scientific merit and is just serving an agenda which is political and antivax.”
Sanofi CEO: ‘Very little’ to do but wait for elections
Other pharmaceutical executives at the conference echoed Bourla’s frustration.
Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson blamed Kennedy for “all the … misinformation that is going around,” Reuters reported.
“I’ve had conversations with Kennedy; we just try to stick to the facts,” Hudson said, according to the WSJ. “Not much we can do.”
Executives said the concern extends beyond any single vaccine or technology.
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