Big pharma CEO teases Nobel Prize for Trump as admin cuts critical vaccine research

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla argued that President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed—the project behind the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020. Bourla’s statement comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashed $500 million for research to develop vaccines using mRNA technology—the science behind COVID-19 vaccines, including Pfizer’s. Bourla touted the success of the Operation Warp Speed, writing in a letter on Wednesday that the vaccine helped save “more than 14 million lives globally.” “Operation Warp Speed restored consumer...