President Donald Trump on Sept. 1 said that pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, should make public information that they’ve shared with him about their COVID-19 products.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs,” the president said in a post on Truth Social.
Trump said Pfizer and other companies have shown him information “that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public.”
The president then linked what he said was the lack of public information to the turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose director he recently fired. After the termination, several top officials resigned, in part because they opposed how the CDC, under orders from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., earlier this year stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
Kennedy has also terminated funding for projects involving messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology, which is utilized by the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy has said the technology does not work for respiratory viruses.
Trump said that he wants companies to show the information “NOW to CDC and the public, and clear up this MESS, one way or the other!”
Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment. Moderna, which also makes a COVID-19 vaccine, and the CDC did not return inquiries.