Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has publically denied it is purposely mutating the Covid virus in an effort to develop vaccines for strains that do not yet exist in nature. The American multinational has been accused of conducting 'gain-of-function' - or directed evolution - research into the virus.
It comes after footage from a hidden camera 'sting' by activist group Project Veritas went viral on Twitter. In the a video - which has been watched more than 25 million times since it was released on January 25 - a man, who Project Veritas claim is Pfizer's Director of Research and Development, makes a number of claims.
It appears the man has been duped into a date with a Project Veritas journalist. He tells him that Pfizer was "exploring" deliberately mutating the coronavirus so that it could "preemptively develop new vaccines".
