The chief executive of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) told news channel CNBC on Tuesday that people may have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 annually for several years, reports DW.
“Unfortunately, as the virus spreads it can also mutate,” said Alex Gorsky.
“Every time it mutates, it’s almost like another click of the dial so to speak where we can see another variant, another mutation that can have an impact on its ability to fend off antibodies or to have a different kind of response not only to a therapeutic but also to a vaccine,” he said.
J&J has currently approached the US health regulator to authorize its single dose COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. Gorsky said that the company is working on making a two-dose vaccine, whose clinical trial data will be available in the second half of 2021.
Gorsky also told CNBC that the drugmaker was confident about delivering 100 million doses of its one-dose vaccine to the US by June.
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Source: DW.com
