According to Pfizer, its vaccines have been tested using the original coronavirus strain to express the spike protein from new variants of concern, and its antiviral Paxlovid has been tested using mutations of the virus.
In order to test its antiviral medication, Pfizer has acknowledged that it “engineered” a treatment-resistant Covid-19 variant. The US-based multinational pharmaceutical company’s director’s claim that Pfizer was intentionally “mutating” the virus to “preemptively develop new vaccines” is partially supported by this statement.
In a statement, Pfizer stated that it “has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research” in the process of developing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Gain of function research is the process of enhancing a virus’s capacity to infect humans and directed evolution research is the process of selecting a virus’s “desirable” traits to reproduce.
According to Pfizer, the company has tested its vaccines by using the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to express the spike protein from new variants of concern, and it has also created mutations of the virus to test Paxlovid, its antiviral medication.
Pfizer stated, “such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells” “in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations.”
In addition, the pharmaceutical company stated that the research was carried out in a secure laboratory to determine “whether the main protease can mutate to yield virus strains that are resistant.” According to Pfizer, the process is frequently referred to as “gain of function” research.
Should Read: WATCH: Official tells his date that Pfizer is working on a new Covid strain to sell vaccines. This comes just a few days after Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations Jordon Trishton Walker told an undercover journalist that the US pharma giant was “exploring” ways to “mutate [Covid] ourselves so we could create, preemptively develop, new vaccines.”
Walker thought he was on a date, but the man he was talking to was one of the undercover journalists for Project Veritas.
“The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them,” Walker explained, before telling his “date” not to tell anyone.
He went on to say that Pfizer scientists are improving the Covid mutation process, but they are doing so cautiously and slowly.
However, Pfizer states that any work on live viruses is done in vitro—in test tubes or other lab equipment—and that the alleged plan to infect monkeys is not mentioned in the statement.
