A conservative blog known for posting inaccurate articles, including some about the CEO of Pfizer, published a story on November 10 claiming that Albert Bourla’s wife had died and his cause of death was listed as “complications from the Pfizer vaccine.”
Pfizer spokeswoman Amy Rose accused the article’s author of “deliberately and maliciously attempting to cause emotional distress to the Bourla family.”
“Our CEO’s wife is alive and well, contrary to what was said on the Internet,” Rose wrote in an email to the AP.
“It is inconceivable that a person posing as a journalist would spread such lies about our CEO and his family with the aim of undermining trust in a vaccine that has been administered to hundreds of millions of people around the world.”
The blog, The Conservative Beaver, did not provide any evidence for their claims. and attributed certain information to an unidentified doctor.
The article has been widely shared on social media among people who seem to believe it is true.
The article wrongly claimed that Myriam Bourla died on November 10 at a hospital outside of New York City after paramedics rushed her to the emergency room.
The blog also incorrectly stated that she had “expressed skepticism about her husband’s experimental injection” and initially refused to take it.
That claim is also false. The article took a months-old quote from Myriam Bourla out of context to back up the inaccurate statement.
In a Feb. 4 interview with local news outlet Scarsdale 10583, Bourla, then 48, said she was “very proud” of her husband’s work developing the vaccine, but had not received it yet because it was not his turn.
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