Pfizer Issues 'Bizarre' Statement After Bombshell Project Veritas Video

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet 

Pfizer released a statement Friday evening after a bombshell Project Veritas video showed a director claiming the company is conducting “directed evolution” research to study how COVID could be mutated in order to “preemptively develop new vaccines.”

Seeking to “set the record straight,” Pfizer denied conducting either gain of function or directed evolution research in developing the COVID-19 vaccine. The company does say, however, that in some cases, "when a virus does not have any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells."

"Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities..."'...Read more and see video here.