Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021
Did the wife of Pfizer’s CEO die from the Pfizer vaccine?
The website Conservative Beaver often writes fabricated stories about public figures.
This time, it published an article claiming that Myriam Bourla, the wife of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, died Nov. 10, 2021, after complications from Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
However, a photo that Albert Bourla posted on his Twitter account showed the two of them together, both alive, at an award ceremony on Nov. 11, 2021.
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- Albert Bourla Enjoying the moment with my wife
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