Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla stated a 4th dosage of the COVID vaccine would be required due to subsiding effectiveness following a third dosage. Bourla offered his newest insights in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.
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— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 13, 2022
The program’s host Margaret Brennan asked Bourla if Americans must prepare to get a COVID shot yearly, similar more traditional to vaccines such as the flu shot. “I think so,” Bourla said. “Variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade in a skillful way the immune protection that we were given.”
According to Bourla, Pfizer is establishing a vaccine that will secure against all prospective versions of COVID. He stated the goal was to produce a vaccine that would provide protection for” at least a year.”
In the time leading up to that new or modified vaccine, Bourla said that a 4th COVID shot would be”necessary.”
“The protection that we are getting from the third [dose], it is good enough, actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths, it’s not that good against infections, but doesn’t last very long,” Bourla said. “We are just submitting those data to the FDA, and then we will see what the experts also will say, outside of Pfizer.”
Guidance and approval for boosters of the Pfizer COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ have been authorized by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Food and Drug Administration in spite of recent controversies.
A fourth dose has been authorized for those most vulnerable to extreme illness.
In December, Israel became the first nation to authorize the 4th dosage of COVID-19 vaccines after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that the extra dose would be readily available to people ages 60 or older and at-risk groups. Other nations– consisting of Denmark, Sweden, Chile, and the UK– have also authorized a fourth dose. The state of West Virginia was among the very first states in the US to request authorization from the CDC to start administering 4th dosages to people over 50 years old, people with serious underlying conditions, and critical workers.
Addressing the ever-moving goalpost of two, then three now four doses being necessary Dr. Bourla claimed,
“First of all, I think I need to correct something. FDA was very keen to submit. Actually, they were the ones who asked us to submit on two doses. We were a little bit reluctant to submit to two doses because we felt that the three dose is what kids will need. Eventually, in reviewing the situation with them, we all agreed that it’s better if we wait for the three doses to come out because it’s one thing it is to have a vaccine out there, and the other thing it is to have a clear picture for the parents by all scientists that they all agree, CDC, FDA, the industry, academia, that it is the right thing to do for the kids. And I think the three doses likely will provide the very strong set of evidence, so everybody will agree.”
Be sure to keep track of that quote if/when the calls for fifth and sixth dosages comes.
H/T Timcast
