Pfizer is allegedly looking into “mutating” COVID-19 in order to facilitate the development of new vaccines, according to an undercover video released by the nonprofit journalism group Project Veritas.

NTD spoke to Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop messenger RNA technology, about the alleged admission. Malone called the assertions made in the video “profoundly disturbing.”

Pfizer on Jan. 28 responded in a statement, saying, “In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research.” The lengthy written statement came after days of the leading biopharmaceuticals company ignoring queries from The Epoch Times and other outlets.