Those spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines are “criminals,” according to Pfizer’s top executive.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla slammed the “very small” group of people who have purposefully spread misinformation about vaccines and how safe they are, according to CNBC.
“Those people are criminals,” Bourla told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe at an event hosted by the Washington, D.C., think tank Tuesday. “They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.”
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Bourla said he hopes life for most people can go “back to normal” once the unvaccinated get vaccinated.
“The only thing that stands between the new way of life and the current way of life is, frankly, hesitancy to vaccinations,” Bourla said.
Anti-vaccine misinformation has been a consistent problem for both the U.S. government and social media platforms, both of which have taken increasingly stringent action to counter growing concerns.
In September, YouTube cracked down on anti-vaccine content by terminating the accounts of anti-vaccine proponents like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was temporarily suspended from Twitter after claiming that COVID-19 vaccines were failing.
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The White House has also attempted to combat vaccine misinformation, calling on Facebook to censor posts claiming the shots cause infertility and offering to call Nicki Minaj in September after the rapper claimed without evidence that inoculation can cause impotence.
The Atlantic Council and Pfizer did not respond to requests for comment from the Washington Examiner.
