People who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are “criminals” and have cost “millions of lives,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Tuesday according to a report by CNBC.

Speaking with Washington D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council, Bourla said there is a group of people that purposefully circulate misinformation on the shots and mislead those who are already hesitant about taking the experimental injection.

“Those people are criminals,” he told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe. “They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.”

Bourla’s comments come as millions of eligible adults in the U.S. have chosen to not take the COVID-19 shot despite their wide availability and massive push through both bibes and coercion by institutions across the nation including entertainment, media, big tech, large private corporations, elected officials & government agencies.