Pfizer CEO says a vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant is 'likely' to emerge

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So instead of conducting a phase 3 trial on a new booster targeted toward Delta, Pfizer is recycling its old vaccine shots for everyone because... profits?

Even if new additional variants arise, we'd still have to constantly get boosters unless they actually retarget their vaccine.

Which they will, and we'll eventually end up with a regular rotation of coronavirus vaccines, similar to our yearly flu vaccines.

Given how much time we have had and the demand why does Pfizer not just request government funds from all major economies to build factories in their jurisdictions?

That sounds like a recipe for keeping this permanent pandemic even more permanent than it already is.

Terrible headline. Should be something like:

Pfizer CEO says a coronavirus variant is likely to come along that is resistant to today's vaccines.

i believe his comments are related to this study:

"The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1....

That paper is plenty scary, as it suggests that the current immunization with the pfizer vaccine for the initial version of the virus may actually enhance the infectivity of a new variant

It does not…a new variant will just be better at avoiding vaccine induced antibodies, no reason for it to be more infectious

they discuss in the paper how antibody dependent enhancement can occur

Now why would the Pfizer CEO say this..

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