A Pfizer executive admitted that she nor other Pfizer officials did not know whether the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the company would stop viral transmission before being publicly distributed last year.

Pfizer's president of international development markets, Janine Small, testified on behalf of Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla before the European Parliament's COVID-19 committee Monday. Bourla was summoned by the committee but withdrew from his appointment.

According to The Epoch Times, Small was asked if the Pfizer COVID vaccine was tested to stop the transmission of the virus before bringing it to market.

Small said in response: "No... You know, we had to... really move at the speed of science to know what is taking place in the market. And from that point of view, we had to do everything at risk."

Following Small's comments to him, Rob Roos, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, said in a Twitter video that millions of people worldwide were duped by pharmaceutical companies and governments.

He added that people were forced to be vaccinated due to the myth that "you do it for others," which turned out to be "a cheap lie."

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Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Preventing Transmission

In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote in its report that no data was available at the time to determine whether the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent transmission and for how long the vaccine would provide protection.

In the same year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the pharmaceutical firm was not sure whether those who receive its mRNA vaccine developed with BioNTech would be able to transmit COVID-19 to other people.

Despite the uncertainty of the effectiveness of the vaccines in stopping viral transmission, many governments around the world implemented policies requiring people to show proof of their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Roos said he was among those who objected to the vaccination requirements. He noted that the Dutch prime minister and health minister told them that the vaccination was "also for others" and "you do it for all of society," which "turns out to be complete nonsense," The Blaze reported.

Roos said the Pfizer executive's admission that the vaccine was untested to prevent transmission removes "the entire legal basis" for the COVID-19 passport, which led to "massive institutional discrimination as people lost access to essential parts of society."

"I find this to be shocking, even criminal," he added.

COVID-19 Vaccines in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently said in a report that two shots of COVID-19 vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 hospitalizations among adult Medicare recipients in 2021.

According to CNBC, Texas and Hawaii were not included in the study due to incomplete vaccination data. Most of the Medicare recipients are 65 and older, while people who are not seniors make up about 14% of Medicare beneficiaries.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, more than 300 people are still dying each day on average from COVID-19, while more than 3,300 people are hospitalized daily.

Health officials believe that the new boosters will provide substantially better protection against COVID-19 as the shots now match the main COVID variant circulating in the U.S., which is the Omicron BA.5 subvariant.

The FDA authorized the COVID-19 vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna in December 2020. Seniors were the first to get the shots, and eligibility gradually expanded in 2021.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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