{"id":121402,"date":"2021-04-15T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=121402"},"modified":"2021-04-15T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:30:40","slug":"pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO says third Covid vaccine dose likely needed within 12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pfizer\u00a0CEO Albert Bourla said people will &quot;likely&quot; need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated.<\/li>\n<li>He also said it&#x27;s possible people will need to get vaccinated against the virus annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>PFE<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pfizer\u00a0CEO Albert Bourla said people will &quot;likely&quot; need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. His comments were made public Thursday but were taped April 1.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it&#x27;s possible people will need to get vaccinated against the virus annually.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus,&quot; he told CNBC&#x27;s Bertha Coombs during an event with CVS Health. He added the vaccines will be an important tool in the fight against highly contagious variants.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers still don&#x27;t know how long protection lasts once someone has been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer said earlier this month its Covid-19 vaccine was more than 91% effective at protecting against Covid and more than 95% effective against severe disease up to six months after the second dose. Moderna&#x27;s vaccine, which uses technology similar to Pfizer&#x27;s, was also shown to be highly effective at six months.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer&#x27;s data was based on more than 12,000 vaccinated participants. However, researchers say more data is still needed to determine whether protections last after six months.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, the Biden administration&#x27;s Covid response chief science officer David Kessler said Americans should expect to receive booster shots to protect against coronavirus variants. <\/p>\n<p>Kessler told U.S. lawmakers that currently authorized vaccines are highly protective but noted new variants could &quot;challenge&quot; the effectiveness of the shots.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We don&#x27;t know everything at this moment,&quot; he told House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Response.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are studying the durability of the antibody response,&quot; he said.&quot;It seems strong but there is some waning of that and no doubt the variants challenge &#8230; they make these vaccines work harder. So I think for planning purposes, planning purposes only, I think we should expect that we may have to boost.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In February, Pfizer and BioNTech said\u00a0they were testing a third\u00a0dose of their Covid-19 vaccine to better understand the immune response against new variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, the National Institutes of Health started testing a new vaccine from Moderna designed to protect against a problematic variant first found in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/15\/pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer\u00a0CEO Albert Bourla said people will &quot;likely&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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