Pfizer Inc.’s chief executive sought to assure the drugmaker’s employees Thursday that their experimental Covid-19 vaccine wouldn’t be influenced by politics, two days after President Trump mentioned the company during the debate.Chief Executive Albert Bourla sent a letter to all employees saying Pfizer “would never succumb to political pressure" as it develops a Covid-19 vaccine.“The only pressure we feel—and it weighs heavy—are the billions of people, millions of businesses and hundreds of government officials that are depending on us," he wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.Mr.
Trump said in the presidential debate Tuesday that he had spoken to Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and a vaccine was weeks away.