The head of the New York-based vaccine manufacturer claimed there is a “very small” group of people that purposefully circulate misinformation on the injections. This, he added, further misleads those already hesitant about getting the shot.
“Those people are criminals,” Bourla told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe back in November 2021. “They’re not bad people, [but] they’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.”
Public health experts blame “misinformation” for millions of American adults refusing the COVID-19 shots, even though most of the doses have been available to most Americans and they are eligible for them.
Bourla claimed in the same interview that many people’s lives can go “back to normal” once the unvaccinated get injected with the COVID-19 vaccine. “The only thing that stands between the new way of life and the current way of life is, frankly, hesitancy to vaccinations,” he said.
As per a Kaiser Family Foundation survey,
more than three-quarters of adults either believe or aren’t sure about
at least one of eight “false statements about COVID-19 or the vaccines,”
with unvaccinated adults and Republicans among those most likely to
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