{"id":1656483,"date":"2022-09-24T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656483"},"modified":"2022-09-24T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:50:46","slug":"pfizer-ceo-tests-positive-for-covid-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-ceo-tests-positive-for-covid-for-a-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpfizer-ceo-tests-positive-for-covid-for-a-second-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said on Saturday he had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m feeling well and symptom free,\u201d Bourla said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Bourla, 60, back in August had contacted COVID and had started a course of the company\u2019s oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid.<\/p>\n<p>Paxlovid is an antiviral medication that is used to treat high-risk people, such as older patients.<\/p>\n<p>Bourla has received four doses of the COVID vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive said he has not yet taken the new bivalent booster.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Moderna and the team of Pfizer and BioNTech, the new so-called bivalent shots aim to tackle the BA.5 and BA.4 Omicron subvariants, which make up 84.8% and 1.8%, respectively, of all circulating variants in the United States, based on latest data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not had the new bivalent booster yet, as I was following CDC guidelines to wait three months since my previous COVID case which was back in mid-August,\u201d Bourla added. <\/p>\n<p>In August, the FDA authorized Pfizer and Moderna\u2019s updated booster shots that target the dominant BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants.<\/p>\n<p>A federal health agency said this week that over 25 million doses of the so-called bivalent shots had been sent out. That consisted of mostly the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine, as production of the Moderna vaccine ramps up.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/pfizer-ceo-tests-positive\/attachment\/file-photo-bourla-ceo-of-pfizer-attends-a-discussion\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8N08B-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8N08B-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said on Saturday he had tested positive for COVID-19. \u201cI\u2019m feeling well and symptom free,\u201d Bourla said in a statement. 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