The House Judiciary Committee is seeking information based on a former Pfizer scientist’s reported claims that he was part of efforts to “deliberately slow down” testing of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine until after the 2020 presidential election.
The panel says it wants information from the scientist, Philip Dormitzer, and Pfizer after it learned the scientist allegedly asked at a later job in 2024 to be relocated to Canada out of fears that he’d face an investigation about his part in the release of the vaccine, reports The Wall Street Journal Thursday.
The committee in one letter asked Pfizer for documents on its testing of the vaccine and sent Dormitzer a letter seeking similar documentation and a request for an interview by May 29. It did not compel the scientist at this time to appear, but if he declines, the panel has the authority to subpoena him.
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