Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people will “likely” need a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. Bourla said it’s possible people will need to get vaccinated against the coronavirus annually, noting, “It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus.”
The comment comes after Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky implied that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, just like they do against the seasonal flu. He observed that the virus mutates, which can enhance its ability to fend off antibodies and cause it to have a different response to vaccines.
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel revealed the plans of having the booster shot for the two-dose COVID-19 by fall. “I want to make sure there are boost vaccines available in the fall so that we protect people as we go into the next fall and winter season in the U.S.,” Bancel said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as if reminding everyone who’s the boss, said that it is not pharmaceutical company CEOs who will decide on the necessity of COVID-19 boosters, but the federal health authorities — CDC and FDA. He acknowledged that the CDC will use companies’ advisory committee and immunization practices, which involves officials examining the durability of the vaccine by measuring the level of antibodies still present after a period of time. Dr. Fauci said the data is expected to be available by the end of summer.
The medical community seems to have an agreement on the idea that “COVID is here to stay.” “We need to plan that this is something we may need to maintain control over chronically. It may be something that becomes endemic, that we have to just be careful about,” Dr. Fauci said.
While every American is encouraged to get a COVID shot, and now possibly boosters, what many people don’t know is that the COVID shots are not vaccines in the traditional sense, which ostensibly work by building and supporting the human immune system that, in the end, is responsible for fighting the viruses and disease-causing bacteria. By that definition, the novel mRNA vaccines distributed by Pfizer and Moderna are not vaccines. By admission of the manufacturers themselves, both the Pfizer and Moderna products only lessen the symptoms of COVID, but don’t prevent transmission. People still get COVID after receiving the jabs.
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