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“CEO of Pfizer is not fully vaccinated and had to cancel his trip to Israel”
Social media posts Claim dated 7 Aug 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

The CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, was fully vaccinated in March 2021. He received the second dose of the ‘Pfizer/BioNTech’ COVID-19 vaccine in the month of March 2021 itself. The news of Albert Bourla’s Israel visit cancellation for not being fully vaccinated was published prior to this in early March 2021. In an interview to CNBC Television in December 2020 when asked about vaccine hesitancy, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla replied that one needs to ‘trust science’

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 7 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 August 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

Where the claim appeared

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