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Judi Lynn

(160,506 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 04:11 AM Mar 2022

Pfizer's CEO says Jared Kushner wanted him to divert vaccine supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin

Pfizer's CEO says Jared Kushner wanted him to divert vaccine supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin America to boost the US's COVID-19 jab stockpile

insider@insider.com (Cheryl Teh) - Yesterday 9:08 PM

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla revealed in a new op-ed published on Forbes that he and Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, once had a "heated" debate over whether the US should receive its vaccine doses first.

In the op-ed, Bourla said he and Kushner disagreed over the supply time for an additional 100 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 jab that the Trump administration ordered. Bourla wrote that the conflict arose because the US was topping up on its original order of 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, but that other countries had already signed contracts with Pfizer to secure their vaccine doses.

During the early days of the pandemic, Kushner was the head of a COVID-19 shadow task force that a documentary later revealed consisted of young volunteers buying PPE with personal email accounts.

"Jared was asking for a very aggressive delivery plan to the US for the additional 100 million doses. He wanted it all in the second quarter of 2021," wrote Bourla. "To do that, we would have had to take supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin American countries, all of which had placed their orders earlier than the US and were expecting the vaccine in the second quarter."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/pfizers-ceo-says-jared-kushner-wanted-him-to-divert-vaccine-supplies-from-canada-japan-and-latin-america-to-boost-the-uss-covid-19-jab-stockpile/ar-AAUKVep?li=BBnb7Kz

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Pfizer's CEO says Jared Kushner wanted him to divert vaccine supplies from Canada, Japan, and Latin (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2022 OP
Entitled little shit. Maraya1969 Mar 2022 #1
My bet is it was a hail mary attempt at damage control before the election to let Trump cstanleytech Mar 2022 #2
never mind hkp11 Mar 2022 #3
Never will forget Kushner confiscating PPE from Blue States early on Freethinker65 Mar 2022 #4

cstanleytech

(26,273 posts)
2. My bet is it was a hail mary attempt at damage control before the election to let Trump
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 06:03 AM
Mar 2022

claim he was the one behind getting the vaccine to the American people after Trump and the other Republican politicians across the nation dropped the ball causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to die due to the virus.

hkp11

(275 posts)
3. never mind
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 06:53 AM
Mar 2022

that his FIL was spewing lies that the coronavirus was a flu, was only one person, won't spread, what coronavirus, lies, more lies....
and so many ppl died.

The weasel just wanted to protect his FIL's re-election campaign - by providing the vaccines secretly to their families donors, privileged supporters, and to their foreign benefactors.

Freethinker65

(10,008 posts)
4. Never will forget Kushner confiscating PPE from Blue States early on
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 09:20 AM
Mar 2022

States that were forced to procure their own PPE. It was obvious Kushner believed there was a political advantage to having the major cities of Chicago and New York suffer losses of human life.

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