Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Again Refuses to Testify Before EU Parliament COVID Committee

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has once again refused to testify before the European Parliament’s special COVID committee.

“Since the October COVID hearing, we have no further information to share with the Committee, so respectfully decline the invitation to again revisit these issues,” states the letter from Bourla dated December 2 and seen by POLITICO.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla "refuses to testify" before EU Parliament Covid panel… pic.twitter.com/tXUKkF9A2W

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 5, 2022

It's two strikes for the European Parliament's COVID committee.

Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla declines to testify at hearing about his contact with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for the second time.https://t.co/jQOE2q8yvc

— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) December 5, 2022

Politico reported:

Bourla previously pulled out of an appointment to testify before the committee in October, at which he was expected to face tough questions on how secretive vaccine deals were struck. That decision followed an audit report into the EU’s vaccine procurement strategy that raised new questions about contact between the pharma CEO and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that preceded a multibillion-euro vaccine contract.

On October 14, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed it hadan ongoinginvestigation into the EU’s COVID vaccine purchases, but has not yet specified who is being investigated or which of the EU’s vaccine contracts are under scrutiny.

At the October 10 COVI hearing, the company’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, faced repeated questionsfrom the committeeon Bourla’s absence, one of which waseven taped to some MEPs’ laptops. She also took questions on vaccine contract negotiations and the jabs themselves, including one from Dutch MEP Robert Roos (ECR group) about whether the vaccine was tested for its ability to prevent transmission before entering the market. That question — and Small’s answer — landed Roos an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News talk show.

Let’s revisit what Janine Small said in response to Roos’ questioning about the ability of Pfizer’s shot to prevent transmission:

“If you don’t get vaccinated, you’re antisocial. This is what the Dutch prime minister and health minister told us. You don’t get vaccinated just for yourself, but also for others. You do it for all of society, that’s what they said. Today, this turned out to be complete nonsense,” Roos said in his viral Twitter video.

“In a COVID hearing in the European Parliament, one of the Pfizer directors just admitted to me at the time of introduction, the vaccine had never been tested on stopping the transmission of the virus,” Roos said.

“This removed the entire legal basis for the COVID passport. The COVID passport that led to massive institutional discrimination as people lost access to essential parts of society. I find this to be shocking, even criminal,” Roos added.

🚨 BREAKING:

In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission.

"Get vaccinated for others" was always a lie.

The only purpose of the #COVID passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.

The world needs to know. Share this video! ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/su1WqgB4dO

— Rob Roos MEP 🇳🇱 (@Rob_Roos) October 11, 2022

Millions of people worldwide were coerced into taking an mRNA gene therapy believing it would stop transmission of COVID-19.

That was a LIE!

These are crimes against humanity.

Yet, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla evades testifying before the European Parliament’s special COVID committee.

Cont. from Politico:

So, on October 28, the COVID committee extended a second invitation to the CEO.

“Our committee felt that during the previous hearing with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, where Pfizer was represented by Mrs. Janine Small, important questions regarding the advanced purchase agreements between the European Union and Pfizer, which fall under the responsibility of the CEO and of which only he has the authority to respond to them, remained unanswered,” COVID committee chair Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D group) said in a statement today.

“As chair of the COVI committee, I deeply regret Dr. Bourla’s refusal to discuss this matter with the Members of the European Parliament,” she said. “As a co-legislator of the European budget, the Parliament has the right to obtain full transparency on the modalities of these expenditures and the preliminary negotiations leading up to them.”