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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla expects normalcy to return within a year, adds we may need annual Covid shots
"Within a year, I think we'll be able to return to normalcy," Pfizer CEO.
Pfizer CEO sees return to 'normal' over the next year
Albert Burla, chief executive and president of Pfizer, said Sunday, adding that annual Covid vaccination shots would likely be necessary.
"Within a year, I think we'll be able to go back to a normal life," Burla said in an ABC interview this week.
Bourla's expectations about when to resume an everyday life are in line with Stefan Bancel, CEO of Morna. "From today, in a year, I suppose," Bansal told the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, according to Reuters on Thursday, when asked about his appreciation for returning to everyday life.
To achieve this, Pfizer's Bourla suggested that an annual coronavirus vaccine would likely be required.
the virus spreads around the world; it will continue to see new variables emerge," Bourla said. "We'll also have vaccines that will last at least a year, and I think the most likely scenario is an annual vaccination, but we don't know.
Dr. Rochelle Wallinsky authorized the distribution of Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer and BioNTech to those in high-risk professional and institutional settings, a move that an advisory panel overturned. Walensky agreed to distribute the booster shots to older Americans and adults with underlying medical conditions six months after the first shot series, in line with the advisory panel.
The World Health Organization is vehemently opposed to the widespread use of booster doses, saying that wealthier countries should give extra doses to countries with lower vaccination rates.
On Sunday, Burla said it was "not right to decide whether or not to agree to boosters" on any criteria other than "whether reinforcements are needed."
On Tuesday, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, criticized Moderna and Pfizer for not sharing intellectual property more widely to help accelerate global vaccination rates.
It's not a good idea to brandish intellectual property, Bourla said.
"Intellectual property is what created the thriving life sciences sector that was ready when the pandemic broke out," Bourla said. "Without that, we wouldn't be here to discuss whether or not we didn't do it with us because we didn't have vaccines... Also, we're very proud of what we've done. I don't know why [Frieden] uses those words. We're so proud. He saved us." Millions of lives."
Pfizer sells vaccines at different prices to countries with varying levels of wealth. Bourla said developing countries are buying vaccines at cost from Pfizer. Bourla pointed out that Pfizer sells one billion doses of vaccine to the US government at a price. He then said that the US government would donate those vaccine doses "at no cost and completely free to the world's poorest countries."
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