Fact Check: Does Project Veritas Video Show Pfizer Is Mutating COVID?
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Newsweek has asked Project Veritas for this footage and a full transcript of the conversation and contacted Pfizer about the interviewee and details of any of the experiments described or inferred.
Whatever the authenticity of the video or the factuality of its content, some of the comments shared online in response to it are misleading characterizations of what it shows.
It does not clearly state that "mutation" experiments are occurring with live subjects at Pfizer and much of the interviewee's answers are in hypothetical terms.
As the film was posted recently there may yet be more information forthcoming. Until then, however,
the speculative claims that Newsweek has identified on social media are not a fair reflection of what the video shows.
In the Project Veritas video, the interviewee, who is quoted as a Pfizer employee, says there are ongoing discussions about engineering "mutations" of COVID so that preemptive vaccines, for variants that may occur in nature, could be developed.
However, the discussions are spoken about in theoretical terms.
While Project Veritas' James O'Keefe claims that the interviewee moves on to talk about these experiments as if they are ongoing, t
here is not enough information in the film to be certain whether he is talking about theoretical experiments or other preliminary research, or if these directly involve or are related to COVID.
At the time of writing, Pfizer is yet to comment on the Project Veritas video or the claims made within it.
Therefore, we currently rate the claims that Pfizer is mutating COVID as unverified."
Fact Check: Does Project Veritas Video Show Pfizer Is Mutating COVID? (msn.com)
The Pfizer mutating the virus claims are "unverified."