It will take a third anti-Covid dose within a year, Pfizer says

16 April 20213 years ago babelfish

What Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a televised interview on April 15 with Cnbc. Enrico Martial's article

Six to twelve months after the first two injections "a third dose of the vaccine will probably be needed," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a televised interview on April 15 at CNBC , evening hours in Italy. There will then be an annual vaccination, he added.

In this regard, some hypotheses had already emerged in recent days about possible annual reminders and the need to consolidate immunization capabilities. According to CNBC , Bourla would have already advanced this hypothesis in the first days of April. Furthermore, Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson , in February speculated a recurring annual vaccination "like seasonal flu."

Data on the duration of immunization are gradually starting to be available, so as to allow the first analyzes, which have relevance for two profiles, first of all for the variants, on which Pfizer with the German Biontech in February had started a clinical study for the useful effects of a possible third dose.

Secondly, the data are necessary for the planning of industrial production and research, on a global basis, while vaccination will progressively be extended in different countries.

Also on April 15, David Kessler, scientific director of President Biden's Covid-19 task force, in a congressional hearing also advanced the hypothesis of a further recall of vaccination.

Pfizer's analysis refers to a group of 12 thousand people, in addition to data from the different countries where the vaccine was administered, starting from December 2020.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/ci-vorra-una-terza-dose-anti-covid-entro-un-anno-dice-pfizer/ on Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:47:34 +0000.