{"id":11279,"date":"2026-01-21T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11279"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:58:14","slug":"pfizer-ceo-lays-blame-for-us-vaccine-woes-on-rfk-jr-s-anti-science-stance-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/21\/pfizer-ceo-lays-blame-for-us-vaccine-woes-on-rfk-jr-s-anti-science-stance-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO lays blame for US vaccine woes on RFK Jr.&#8217;s &#8216;anti-science&#8217; stance: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercepharma.com\/pharma\/pfizer-ceo-lays-blame-us-vaccine-woes-anti-science-rfk-jr-wsj\">Fierce Pharma<\/a> While much of the biopharma industry has spent the past 12 months treading lightly around the Trump administration and the tumult it has wrought on U.S. medical research and regulation, Pfizer\u2019s CEO cut to the chase this week in a blatant rebuke of HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have very productive discussions when it comes to cancer cures, when it comes to the \u2018most-favored nations\u2019 deal, et cetera,\u201d Pfizer\u2019s Albert Bourla&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-fed-lisa-cook-trump-nvidia-01-21-2026\/card\/pfizer-ceo-takes-aim-at-kennedy-over-vaccines-PWxIxEh1YM9DaXAWjz39?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqefObcnFVLXo0O9orICGOPeKe9IacwgUMYHhM-1ESXIaMRcjYM6wYMJIjYVl3I%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6970ddcd&amp;gaa_sig=Ox7zZckboYyEHB5ZCERz7DFJQOUD8fbIwYIjK6svKLYAfJj9155LTXKpmLpCAuYcqXpfT-ojustrkhVEVruirA%3D%3D\">said<\/a>&nbsp;during a WSJ event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a different world when you start discussing vaccines, there\u2019s almost like a religion there,\u201d the CEO said, as quoted by the newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce Pharma While much of the biopharma industry has spent the past 12 months treading lightly around the Trump administration and the tumult it has wrought on U.S. medical research and regulation, Pfizer\u2019s CEO cut to the chase this week in a blatant rebuke of HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11280,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions\/11280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}