Pfizer company said last week that people who receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus would probably need to take a booster dose within six to 12 months after the first dose. Many of those vaccinated in Kuwait have been administered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Revealing the need for a possible booster dose, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a media live event posted on his Facebook account that protection provided by the company’s vaccine “goes down with time’, but that it will still be extremely high in six months.
Nevertheless, the CEO admitted that based on new data people would need to have booster doses. He added that it remained to be seen how often people would need booster doses, but ”a likely scenario is that there will be a need for a third dose somewhere between six and 12 months and then from there, there will be an annual re-vaccination. But all this needs to be confirmed.
“In pandemics, you are as protected as your neighbor,” Mr. Bourla said that was why it was important that all countries get their citizens vaccinated. Meanwhile, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said about 198 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the US.
More than 30 percent of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, and about 48 percent of adults have received at least one dose of vaccine. Among seniors, about 64 percent are fully vaccinated and 80 percent have received at least one dose.Overall, about 78.5 million people in the US are fully vaccinated and nearly 126 million people have received at least one dose, according to CDC data.
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