Fact Check: Does Project Veritas Video Show Pfizer Is Mutating COVID?

A hugely viral video that purportedly shows a senior Pfizer employee talking about COVID-19 vaccine experiments has exploded across social media, gathering millions of views and sparking speculation.

Released by Project Veritas, the video includes what it says is undercover footage of a conversation detailing COVID mutation projects, designed to pre-emptively research potential new strains of the virus before they may find root naturally.

t’s worth noting that Project Veritas, which describes itself as a “journalism enterprise”, is a controversial organization that has previously produced investigations subsequently labeled as false or unevidenced by fact-checkers and other media.

Whatever the facts are about its latest video, some of the claims that it has inspired misrepresent the content of the video itself.

The video shows a conversation between an unidentified reporter and an interviewee that Project Veritas identifies as “Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development – Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning”.

The film is divided into a series of clips with what appears to be the same interviewee each time.

In the first set of clips, the reporter asks: “What is Pfizer doing, I guess to optimize, you know, the vaccines now?”

The interviewee replies: “Oh, we actually had a meeting about that today. So, there’s a lot.”

“We’re exploring, like, you know how the virus keeps mutating? Well, one of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves, so we could focus on, create, preemptively develop new vaccines, right?” the interviewee said.

They continue: “If we’re going to do that though there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating ******* viruses.

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