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Pfizer and Moderna CEOs joined a wide variety of people from different aspects of life to discuss COVID-19 and other global threats concerning how they can address these issues, according to Fox News.
Dr. Anthony Fauci began the meeting and he suggested that science and spirituality are evolving.
“You have someone who’s a deeply religious person who will listen to their clergy. That’s different than me with a suit going into an area telling people to do something,” Fauci stated.
Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla said, “They shared their intellectual property with us, we shared our intellectual property with them.”
“Agreements that will gather billions of dollars were just put on hold just to make sure that we are all focusing on making the vaccine happen.”
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel stated, “Today, we know that we can get an mRNA vaccine authorized by the regulator. And in business, (the difference) between believing and knowing is a huge difference in your willingness to take the risk.”
Dr. Robin Smith said, “People are very focused on the pandemic. It’s changed our lives in many, many ways. But there are also other areas of our health that are impacted.”
“We really want to sort of check all that at the door and say, ‘How can you make a difference? How can we help?'”
From Fox News:
Organizers said the event has only taken on more relevance amid a growing appreciation of the need for global access to health care, new advances in vaccine technology and greater understanding of the mental health cost of loneliness.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the immunologist who leads the U.S. pandemic response, opened the meeting by saying the pandemic had confirmed to him that faith and science are constantly evolving — and that scientists in particular must humbly admit they don’t have all the answers all the time.
One answer the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he did have was that the key to overcoming current vaccine hesitancy is pairing the right medical message with the right messenger.
Fauci was referring to the religiously inspired resistance to taking COVID-19 vaccines that were indirectly developed using lines of cells derived from aborted fetuses. The Vatican has declared that all COVID-19 vaccines are not only morally licit, but that people have a moral responsibility to get the jabs to protect others.
The multidisciplinary conference was originally scheduled to take place at the Vatican in May 2020 but was postponed a year and eventually put online due to the pandemic.
The virtual format, however, has allowed for an even greater variety of participants.
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