{"id":18653,"date":"2021-08-13T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2021-08-13T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T11:54:31","slug":"pfizer-ceo-to-public-just-trust-us-on-the-covid-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18653","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was confident in June about the ability of his company\u2019s vaccine to protect against the highly contagious delta variant, as it marched across the globe and filled U.S. hospitals with patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel quite comfortable that we cover it,\u201d Bourla said.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks later, Pfizer said it would seek authorization for a booster shot, after early trial results showed a third dose potentially increased protection. At the end of July, Pfizer and BioNTech announced findings that four to six months after a second dose, their vaccine\u2019s efficacy dropped to about 84%.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-covid-booster-evidence-lacking\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was confident in June about the ability of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-pandemic","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18655,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions\/18655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}