{"id":430641,"date":"2021-04-16T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430641"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:21:43","slug":"pfizer-ceo-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-ceo-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO: Third COVID Vaccine Dose \u2018Likely\u2019 Needed Within 12 Months"},"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\">22<\/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-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months%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=430641&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2434.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says people will \u201clikely\u201d need to take a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated and that many may need annual vaccinations against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA likely scenario is that there will be likely a need for a third dose, somewhere between six and 12 months and then from there, there will be an annual revaccination, but all of that needs to be confirmed. And again, the variants will play a key role,\u201d he said in comments that were taped April 1 but first aired Thursday. \u201cBut all of that needs to be confirmed, and again, the variants will play a key role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus,\u201d Bourla said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/15\/pfizer-ceo-says-third-covid-vaccine-dose-likely-needed-within-12-months.html\">according<\/a> to CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Bourla also said that coronavirus vaccines may need to be an annual event, echoing Johnson &amp; Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky, who said the same thing in February.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Pfizer said its vaccine is 91.3% effective at protecting people against COVID-19, based on more than 12,000 participants in a study. Vaccinated also people have 95% protection against severe symptoms from the virus. But Pfizer said it still needs more data to know the efficacy rates for the vaccines beyond six months.<\/p>\n<p>The news came after U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended a halt of Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s vaccine after six women out of approximately 7 million people vaccinated developed blood clots.<\/p>\n<p>Borula\u2019s comments followed a House hearing in which a Biden official said Americans will likely need booster shots. On Thursday, COVID Response Chief Science Officer David Kessler said that while the available vaccines have proved protective, new strains could \u201cchallenge\u201d how well the shots work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know everything at this moment,\u201d he told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. \u201cWe are studying the durability of the antibody response. It seems strong but there is some waning of that and no doubt the variants challenge \u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, both Pfizer and BioNTech began testing a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine to determine effectiveness against new strains of the virus. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel also told CNBC on Wednesday that the company hopes to have a booster shot ready for the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of April 14, about&nbsp;5,800 vaccinated people out of nearly 77 million who have been fully vaccinated in the U.S. have tested positive for the coronavirus, the CDC told CNN,\u201d The Miami Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article250701109.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSome of these people became \u201cseriously ill\u201d and 74 died. Meanwhile, 7% (396 people) who got infected after vaccination required hospitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust over 40% of the infections occurred in people aged 60 or older, and most (65%) were in women and 29% were asymptomatic, meaning no symptoms were felt,\u201d the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says people will \u201clikely\u201d need to take a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated and that many may need &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312326,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2434.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Pfizer CEO: Third COVID Vaccine Dose \u2018Likely\u2019 Needed Within 12 Months","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2434.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Pfizer CEO: Third COVID Vaccine Dose \u2018Likely\u2019 Needed Within 12 Months","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}