Pfizer CEO Says Trump Should Receive Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed

Bourla was responding after the president’s call for transparency on COVID-19 vaccines.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in Davos, Switzerland, on May 25, 2022. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Pfizer’s CEO on Sept. 3 said President Donald Trump should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for the operation that helped deliver COVID-19 vaccines within months of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Albert Bourla said in a statement that Operation Warp Speed and the development of COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna “is a profound public health achievement” that was achieved under the leadership of Trump during the president’s first term.