Pfizer CEO Albert Burla predicts that life will return to normal within the next year; This is despite the possibility that new types of the Covid-19 virus will continue to appear around the world.
According to Arabiya Net, Burla told ABC, "Within a year, I think we will be able to return to normal life...I don't think that means that the variables will not It keeps popping up, and I don't think that means we should be able to live our lives without vaccinations.
Borla's comments echo remarks made last week by Moderna CEO Stefan Bancel, who predicted the pandemic would be over within a year.
If you look at the expansion of production capacities across the industry over the past six months, you should have enough doses by the middle of the year," Bansel told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Next, everyone on Earth can be vaccinated.
People who have not been vaccinated will naturally vaccinate themselves, because the delta variant is highly transmissible, Bancel added.
People will have no alternatives, either you get vaccinated and have a good winter, or you don't and risk your life.
Borla said he believes that COVID-19 will likely require an annual vaccination to address the variables emerging around the world.
The most likely scenario - especially as the virus spreads around the world - is that we will continue to see new variants emerge, and we will have vaccines that will last for a while At least a year.
The CEO of Pfizer added: I think the most likely scenario is annual vaccinations...but we don't really know. We need to wait and see the data.
Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration allowed the use of Pfizer boosters for people 65 and older, and others at risk of contracting the Covid virus. -19 severely ill, including people who are more likely to contract the disease because of their health condition, and others at risk.