Pfizer board member and former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has responded to the release of emails showing he pressured Twitter to censor posts, including one that accurately stated post-infection immunity is superior to that bestowed by COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and other companies.
Gottlieb said on Jan. 9 that he raised concerns with Twitter about posts that contained statements “that I believed were purposely false and inflammatory.”
One email showed Gottlieb writing a Twitter executive in 2021 regarding a post from Dr. Brett Giroir, who also headed the Food and Drug Administration at one point. In the post, Giroir summarized the results of a study from Israel that found post-infection immunity, or natural immunity, protected better than Pfizer vaccination. The study showed that there was no scientific justification to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination if a person had natural immunity, Giroir said, adding that people who did not have natural immunity should get vaccinated….