Mikael Dolsten, scientific director of the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, predicted that the coronavirus It could be extended to the year 2024.
In a presentation to investors of the company Mikael Dolsten announced that the COVID-19, as predicted by Pfizer, should be endemic worldwide by 2024.
“When and how this happens exactly will depend on the evolution of the disease, the efficiency with which society deploys vaccines and treatments, and the equitable distribution in places where vaccination rates are low,” said the scientist.
“The appearance of new variants could also affect the development of the pandemic,” warned Mikael Dolste.
This forecast of the end of the coronavirus pandemic by 2024 occurs after the worldwide spread of the contagious variant omicron of the virus.
The bad news from Pfizer in the fight against COVID-19
The Pfizer company has announced that the double-dose vaccine against coronavirus that was developing to immunize children between 6 months and 5 years has not reached the degrees of effectiveness that they expected in children between 2 and 5 years.
Pfizar announced that it will change the strategy and will try a three-dose vaccine.
What has Pfizer done to end the coronavirus pandemic?
Pfizer created its COVID-19 vaccine together with the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech SE, and expects to manufacture 4 billion doses next year.
With this vaccine against coronavirus Pfizer could earn $ 31 billion in 2022.
Pfizer is also developing the Paxlovid pill, which in a clinical trial has reduced hospitalizations and deaths from coronavirus in patients with high risk by 90%.
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