Pfizer CEO Says There Is A 'High Likelihood' That Covid Variants Will Make Current Vaccine Shots Ineffective

 

Daily Mail: Pfizer CEO vows to speed up vaccine development to under 100 days to combat the 'high likelihood' that mutant Covid variants will make current shots ineffective 

 * Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, spoke at a virtual Davos summit on Friday 

 * Bourla said they were working on speeding up the process of creating vaccines

 * Vaccines against COVID-19 have been created in record time: Bourla said they must go faster 

 * The CEO also warned that in the future vaccines may not be effective 

The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has revealed his company is trying to speed up vaccine development to under 100 days, warning there is a 'high possibility' that vaccines in the future would not be effective. 

New York-based Pfizer was the first company in the world to produce a COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently being administered worldwide. Yet Albert Bourla, CEO, told the virtual 2021 Davos World Economic Forum that vaccines may one day not be a solution, in a session held on Friday.

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WNU Editor: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is not the only one who is voicing concerns that current vaccines may become ineffective with time .... New clinical trials raise fears the coronavirus is learning how to resist vaccines (L.A. Times). 

Update: Let us hope that this is just an outlier .... Democrat Congressman Stephen Lynch, 65, tests positive to COVID-19 after receiving both doses of Pfizer's vaccine (Daily Mail).

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