Pfizer, Moderna Say Booster Shots Probably Needed
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People who’ve received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines will probably need a booster shot this year, top executives for those two pharmaceutical companies said this week.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who’ve gotten both doses would likely need a third shot within 12 months and might need an annual shot thereafter.
“There are vaccines … like polio that one dose is enough, there are vaccines like pneumococcal vaccine that one dose is enough for adults, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year,” Bourla said on a CVS Health Live event, “Race to Vaccinate.” “The COVID virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus.”
A top Moderna executive said the United States is in a good position to move into booster shots because of its vaccine rollout, whereas many other nations are still getting first vaccinations.
“It is likely that the countries that have already achieved high vaccine coverage are going to be ready to shift their focus to boosters in 2022 and possibly even starting at the end of this year,” Corinne M. Le Goff, PharmD, Moderna’s chief commercial officer, said during a call with investors, Business Insider reported.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel made similar comments to Business Insider this week.
“I hope this summer to get the vaccine authorized for a boost so that we can help people getting boosted before the fall, so that we all have a normal fall and not a fall and winter like we just saw in the last 6 months,” he said.
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told CNBC in February that people may need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots.
And David Kessler, MD, of the Biden administration’s COVID response team told a congressional committee on Thursday that Americans should expect to receive booster shots to protect against coronavirus variants, CNBC reported.
“We don’t know everything at this moment,” he told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
“We are studying the durability of the antibody response,” he said. “It seems strong but there is some waning of that and no doubt the variants challenge … 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.”
The CDC says almost 126 million people in the U.S. (37.9% of the population) have received one dose of vaccine and that 78.4 million people (23.6% of the population) are fully vaccinated.
Earlier this month, Pfizer said studies show its vaccine is 93.1% effective 6 months after the second dose. Moderna said studies show 90% effectiveness in its vaccine after 6 months.
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Too much propaganda, Blatent lies, misinformation and loss of freedoms, rights and political hacks that have occurred from this CV thing that I will never take any shot for this thing. All Ive seen is Bill Gates sinister smirks when he’s talking about it. It was very fishy Klaus Schwabs book ” Covid 19 The Great Reset” popped near immediately when this thing started. Then theres The Rockefeller Foundation documents shaped like a CV cell with the protein spikes on it that opens this Huge Agenda. Yea, so all this just Stinks of lies and propaganda. I won’t take any of those evils shots. They’re not even vaccines either. So not me and not my family. They say the same thing.
“…there are vaccines like flu that you need every year,” Bourla said on a CVS Health Live event”
That is because of new influenza variants NOT the same as last years flu (or Corona) types. IF you acquired THOSE LAST YEAR FLUS (or Coronas), for these you are now immune and booster is not needed FOR THOSE. What a dip stick sod brain and my God he is CEO of Pfizer!!! – who bowed down and simply paid the fine when sued for the MEDICINAL opiates THAT DID NOT “FUEL OPIOID CRISIS” …instead of offering facts about their usefulness and so abandoning MILLIONS of severe pain patients and opening up FURTHER GREEDY DOJ/AG ‘prosecutions’ of innocent doctors who knew their WORTH for pain.
I am gonna wait a while to get poked, …until we get some longer term results in.
Until then I will maintain POSITIONAL AWARENESS, namely where my hands are in relation to my face, mouth and nose, the places where any and all viruses gets their first foothold, and washing them before any facial contact if I have been in the public.
Masks are only for splatter – and useful in only a few certain situations.
I chose to get the J&J/Jansen ONE SHOT AND DONE vaccination for us… IMO, the depth of the clinical trials of this vaccine over Moderna & Pfizer was substantial… if you look at past the headlines. We are now FIVE WEEKS past getting the vaccination… no blood clots… still alive… no side effects what so ever. It is one shot and done and the vaccine is stored at normal vaccine temperature.
Yes. six blood clotters in one-million is not a trend by ANY CALCULATION.