Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed and the development of mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, American innovation led the world, helping prevent economic collapse and saving more than 14 million lives globally,” Bourla wrote in a Wednesday statement. “Operation Warp Speed restored consumer confidence, saved over $1 trillion in health care costs due to reductions in serious illness and avoidance of hospitalizations, and rapidly scaled up domestic production.”
“This American leadership also delivered a new platform that may drive significant innovation in cancer research,” he noted. “Such an accomplishment would typically be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, given its significant impact.”
In response to Trump’s recent request that pharmaceutical companies release data justifying the COVID-19 vaccine, Bourla shared a link to Pfizer’s website containing “updates on safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy data in an open and accessible manner.”
“We agree with President Trump about the role data and transparency play in helping to inform patients and providers about their decision to vaccinate,” said Bourla.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) also said that Trump “deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed.”
This week, Trump wrote on Truth Social that it is “very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW. I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???”
“They show me GREAT numbers and results, but they don’t seem to be showing them to many others,” he wrote. “I want them to show them NOW, to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!!! I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as ‘BRILLIANT’ as many say it was. If not, we all want to know about it, and why???”
