The Biden administration last week announced that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine will be available to parts of the population.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Sunday that first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and booster shots can be distributed simultaneously. “I think it is also not the right thing to try to resolve it with an ‘or’ when you can resolve it with an ‘and,'” Bourla said on ABC’s “This Week.” “It’s not, ‘Shall we give boosters or give primary doses to other people?’ I think the answer should be, ‘Let’s give both boosters and doses for other people.'” The World Health Organization has said that rather than implementing widespread rollouts of booster shots, wealthier nations should work to get more first shots to countries with lower vaccination rates. Bourla said that out of the 2 billion vaccine doses Pfizer will have produced by the end of September,500 million of the doses have already gone to middle- or lower-income countries.
