- Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla predicted the world will return to near-normal conditions within a few months and said the US-based pharmaceutical firm is aiming to produce a once-a-year vaccine covering all coronavirus variants.
- “The virus will be with us for years to come,” Bourla said, adding that “we should be able to come to normal lives… in a few months.”
- The interviews came days after the Genesis Foundation announced that Borula was the winner of its annual prize.
Albert Bourla claims that a US-based pharmaceutical company plans to develop a yearly shot that will cover all COVID variations; he accuses anti-vaxxers of causing millions of deaths by distributing false information as reported by The Times of Isreal.
Near normal conditions
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in interviews with Israeli television aired Saturday that the world will return to near-normal conditions in a few months and that the US-based pharmaceutical company is working on a once-a-year vaccine that will cover all coronavirus variants
“Once a year it is easier to convince people to do it.
From a public health situation, it is an ideal solution.
We are looking to see if we can create a vaccine that covers Omicron and doesn’t forget the other variants.
And that could be a solution unless something completely different comes out,” he told Channel 12 news.
“The virus will be with us for years to come,” Bourla said, adding that “we should be able to come to normal lives… in a few months.”
Anti-vaccine activists
Unlike other variants to date, Bourla said: “only Omicron” was able to bypass the protection against infection provided by vaccines, but stressed inoculation remains effective at preventing hospitalization.
Bourla also told the network that he is regularly targeted by anti-vaccine activists who post false information about him online and send him threatening letters.
Differentiating the “sizable minority” of people who are hesitant to take the vaccine, Bourla said in a separate interview with Channel 13 News that “there is a tiny minority of people who profit from circulating misinformation.”
“They know very well everything; they just make it a way of living to circulate this misinformation; they are criminals,” he said.
He said anti-vaxxers falsely claimed his wife had died and that this was because he forced her to vaccinate, causing him to frantically call his kids and wife’s elderly parents to let them know everything was fine.
Non-vaccination
“The biggest thing is because people believe those things… people who die are predominantly not vaccinated,” Bourla said.
He added that he has remained in contact with Benjamin Netanyahu.
For us, the Jews outside, there is Israel.
He added that whoever leads the Jewish state, “for me it is very important to take the call immediately.”
The interviews came days after the Genesis Foundation announced that Borula was the winner of its annual prize. President Isaac Herzog will present Bourla with the $1 million prizes at a ceremony in Israel to be held on June 29.
Last year Bourla was honoured at Israel’s official Independence Day ceremony.
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Source: The Times of Isreal
