This video is being shared on social media platforms with the claim that it shows Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla saying that his company’s goal is to reduce the world’s population by 50% by 2023. Reverse image search of screenshots from the video led us to a YouTube video with similar visuals. This is from a conversation that Bourla participated in at the Davos summit by the World Economic Forum.
The original video was cut at the two-minute thirty-three-second mark to make this 38-second viral clip and a part of the YouTube video was edited to make the viral video. In the YouTube video, Bourla said, “…by 2023, we will reduce the number of people in the world that cannot afford our medicines by 50%, I think, today this dream is becoming reality. ” In the viral video, the words, “that cannot afford our medicines” have been cut out.
Pfizer launched an initiative to provide patent-protected medicines to 45 lower-income countries. Bourla spoke about this in his conversation at Davos. As an edited video is being shared as the Pfizer CEO stating that his goal is to reduce world population by half, this post is misleading.
