Annual COVID-19 vaccine preferable to more frequent booster shots, Pfizer CEO says

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Pfizer’s Albert Bourla says ‘it is easier to convince people’ to get a vaccine if it’s rolled out annually as opposed to every four to five months

In an interview with Israel’s N12 News, Bourla was asked whether he sees booster shots being administered every four to five months on a regular basis.

“This will not be a good scenario. What I’m hoping that we will have a vaccine that you will have to do once a year,” Bourla said.“So from a public-health perspective, it is an ideal situation. We are looking to see if we can create a vaccine that covers Omicron and doesn’t forget the other variants and that could be a solution,” Bourla said.

Bourla has said Pfizer could be ready to file for approval for a redesigned vaccine to fight Omicron, and mass produce it, as soon as March. Citing three studies, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that a third dose of an mRNA vaccine is key to fighting Omicron, providing 90-per-cent protection against hospitalization.

A preliminary study published by Israel’s Sheba Medical Center on Monday found that a fourth shot increases antibodies to even higher levels than the third but was likely not enoughto fend off Omicron. Nonetheless, a second booster was still advised for risk groups, Sheba said.

 

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No thank you / how about preventative medicine / healthy lifestyle / before you go around sticking people with something that enhances existing virus strains

Sure why not establish a stable guarantee market

Whoever doesn’t get the booster shots are anti-vaxxers😂

Whatever little dollar they can grab, shameless

Booster COVID-19 vaccine doses will “shut the immune response”, “just like what happens if you take too many flu vaccines”; heart damage following vaccination is “quite frequent”

In it for the $$$$$$

I have a question for Pfizer CEO. Why will Pfizer not release the raw data on the vaccine to independent research? Why is it that Pfizer has stated they will release this data in 55 years?

I've taken 4 shots this year And will take no more!

Well we need to use up those 100 million (65 million Pfizer, 35 million Moderna) doses the government purchased thru 2024 somehow, amiright?

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