🧵 What is Pfizer Doing in it’s BSL3 Laboratory in Pearl River, NY?
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1. (Dec 2014) Fmr. Pfizer Chief Science Officer Philip Dormitzer, then Head of Novartis Vaccine R&D, pushes back on Gain-of-Function regulations:
“If adaptations of vaccine viruses…wind up captured by GoF regulations…impediments to timely vaccine supply could be created”
2. (Sept 2015) Nine months after Dormitzer’s presentation, he was hired as Pfizer’s CSO and Head of RNA & Viral Vaccines.
Dormitzer was based out of Pfizer’s Pearl River, NY research facility.
He was CSO through the end of 2021.
linkedin.com/in/philip-dorm…
3. (Mar 2021) Pfizer opened a BSL3 Lab at their Pearl River, NY research center.
This lab was “required to grow Covid-19 — with an air lock and scientists clothed in hooded white suits, gloves, impervious gowns, and using an air-purifying respirator.”
statnews.com/2021/08/30/ins…
4. (Aug 2021) STAT does an exclusive interview w/ Dormitzer:
“Isolating and transporting each particular variant from around the world is too much of a hassle. Instead, Pfizer scientists grow the variants themselves, using information from a database called GISAID”
5. “Serum from the blood of vaccinated participants is easier to get than the latest SARS-2 variants.
Every day, a hundred boxes, containing 3,500 blood and nasal samples, arrive at Pearl River from sites conducting clinical studies.”
statnews.com/2021/08/30/ins…
6. Pfizer touts advanced bioinformatics capabilities and a “high-capacity sample management system [that] stores and processes millions of clinical trial samples from around the world.”
What exactly is Pfizer doing with all of this data?
cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/care…
7. Pfizer’s job description for a Sr. Associate Scientist in Pearl River says:
“The scientist in this role will apply analytical skills & develop bioinformatics tools used for whole genome sequencing…RNA sequencing and single cell sequencing.”
pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCa…
8. Please post any thoughts and/or feedback you have on this type of research Pfizer is performing…
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