Pfizer executive denies CEO negotiated EU COVID-19 vaccine contract via text message – CTV
Oct. 10, 2022
FRANKFURT – A Pfizer executive with a lead role in negotiating a COVID-19 vaccine bulk supply agreement with the European Commission “categorically” ruled out that the U.S. drugmaker’s chief executive agreed the contract via mobile phone text messages.
“As to whether a contract negotiation such as this contract which you referred to, 1.8 billion doses, was negotiated through an SMS, I can categorically tell you that would not be the case,” Janine Small, president of international developed markets at Pfizer, told the European Parliament’s special committee on COVID-19 on Monday.
She added that such talks involve far too many people on both sides and take far too long to be conducted via mobile phone texts.
“I know that because I was involved in all the negotiations and discussions from the very start in 2020,” Small said.
