Pfizer CEO Sees a Fourth Dose for Covid Omicron By Brian Simpson
Mrs Vera West covered the item that three doses of the Pfizer Covid vax are being proposed to deal with Covid Omicron. But a new news item just in my news feed says that Bourla, CEO of Pfizer wants four shots now. Of course, four will turn into five, to be fully vaccinated, and so on until death do us part. Say, how many jabs has this guy had? I could not find out via Google, if he has had three yet, but maybe so, some sites say two. I suggest that he goes for four and more. Good luck with that.
“Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Wednesday suggested that a fourth dose of the COVID vaccine might be necessary as the Omicron variant spreads.
“The best way to see it is the virus is the enemy. We want to protect ourselves. We build a wall. The first dose builds a wall, but it’s not very high,” Bourla explained on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
He continued, “The third dose takes the wall very high and should expect to stop the Omicron. So, people that have two doses, they should get the third one, but if they had two doses, it’s very likely that you are better protected than if they don’t have any or if they have only one because there are different elements of immunity responses.”
“[M]any countries have given fourth dose to immunocompromised and to special population, I think including the U.S., so if you’re immunocompromised, you may get it way sooner than — make it more than three,” Bourla later added. “And I think they are having a precaution. I think when we see real-world data, we’ll determine if the Omicron is well covered by the third dose and for how long. And at a certain point, I think we will need a fourth dose. I have said that multiple times. With the previous, I was projecting that that will be on 12 months after the third dose. With Omicron, we need to wait and see because we have very little information. We may need it faster.”
Let us not forget about old Dr Fauci who wants the definition of “fully vaccinated” to be changed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-definition-fully-vaccinated-will-be-changed
“The definition of fully vaccinated in the United States will be changed, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.
“It’s going to be a matter of when, not if,” Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during an appearance on CNN.
The term fully vaccinated presently refers to a person who receives two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab.
Fauci previously said the definition could be changed. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—which set the definition—has left open the possibility of changing it.
The definition is used by authorities imposing vaccine mandates across the country, including the federal mandates against healthcare workers and government contractors.
Several of those mandates have been blocked in courts for now due to worries they’re illegal.
Fauci said the timing of the change may be linked to the ongoing cases.
“It has implications for that, and that’s the reason why it matters,” he said.
The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.
Effectiveness of all three of the vaccines authorized for use in the United States drops the longer time goes on from a person getting one, according to real-world data and a slew of studies.
There’s been “a slow but steady waning of immunity over time,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said last month.
Walensky and other health authorities, citing the waning efficacy, recently cleared boosters for all adults 18 and older. Late last month, they recommended that virtually everybody in that population get an additional jab.
The drop in protection is even more pronounced against the newly identified Omicron variant, according to four studies released this week.
Vaccine makers, including Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, are racing to develop reformulated shots that will target the variant specifically.
BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin told reporters Wednesday that the data makes it “very clear that our vaccine for the Omicron variant should be a three-dose vaccine.”
Some U.S. institutions have already started requiring boosters for people to meet vaccination rules, including multiple college campuses.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member and former head of the Food and Drug Administration, said last month he thinks the CDC will update the definition of fully vaccinated to include boosters, but not until next year.
“I think at some point they’re going to, but not this year. I think eventually this will be considered the three dose vaccine, but I would be hard pressed to believe CDC is going to make that recommendation any time soon,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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