Of course that clip of Stefan Oelrich was circulated and people claimed he said the mRNA vaccines are gene/cell therapy
which is not true.
The full statement attributed to Stefan Oelrich is:
“We are really taking that leap [to drive innovation] – us as a company, Bayer – in cell and gene therapies … ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for
that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say: if we had surveyed two years ago in the public – ‘would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?’ – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate.”
According to Oelrich, the fact that the world population has welcomed mRNA vaccines could open the way for new technologies in the medical field such as
cell and gene therapy, technologies that Bayer has
studied and promoted against diseases such as anemia or Parkinson’s. Oelrich made a comparison between messenger RNA vaccines and gene therapies as an example of technological breakthroughs in the medical field.