The CEO of Pfizer has claimed that he has not yet taken his company’s coronavirus vaccine to avoid the appearance that executives are using their positions for early access to doses.
Albert Burla said, To CNN today, Monday, While the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were being offered to Americans: “No, I haven’t taken them yet, and we have an ethical committee that deals with the question of who gets it.”
But he added, “Whenever I can, I will, Burla described scheduling the vaccination date as an important matter.
On the other hand, polls have shown that the CEO of the vaccine manufacturer who gets the shot will boost confidence in it more than seeing national leaders get vaccinated.
On the other hand, the Corona virus has hit health care workers and disadvantaged people, including the poor and the elderly, severely, so Burla said that his company wants to be careful so that the priority does not seem to be given to its top companies.
The CEO of Pfizer Global has reached the age of 59, and without a job that puts him on the front lines, he is not ripe for a vaccination yet, according to the guidelines of the CDC.
Burla said he would get the vaccine as soon as possible, expressing confidence in him, but admitted in a separate interview that he was not always sure that Pfizer could get the vaccine as quickly as possible.
Burla added, “I was hoping, aspiring and was driving everything so we could do it, but deep down, I thought it was a very stretched goal and there is little chance of it achieving it, but we got it.”
Pfizer developed and distributed the first vaccine for the emerging corona virus in the United States within just 11 months of scientists making the new virus’s genome to build a shot on it.
A nurse from New York became the first American to be vaccinated Monday morning, and the vaccines are scheduled to reach all 50 states on Monday morning, and the first 2.9 million doses of the vaccine will be distributed to Pfizer across the country starting today.
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