After many speculations and more or less credible versions, there is already someone of weight who dares to put a realistic date for the end of the coronavirus pandemic. It is neither more nor less than Pfizer Inc, which has predicted how long the pandemic situation is going to lengthen.
On the other hand, the company also advances that delay your vaccination for children ages 2 to 4. It is a vaccine that is licensed in the United States for people 5 years of age and older. But now his study in children between the ages of 2 and 4 who received two 3-microgram doses of the vaccine has concluded that this does not create the same immune response than a higher dose of the vaccine in older children.
Pfizer has advanced that its vaccine for children 2 to 4 years is delayed
Specifically, the 3-microgram dose generated an immune response similar in children 6 to 24 months, the company said. The company said it will now test a three-dose course in both age groups, as well as in older children.
Two more years of pandemic
In parallel, the scientific director of Pfizer, Mikael Dolsten, is the one who has dared to set a date for the end of the coronavirus pandemic. In a presentation to investors, he advanced that the company expects some regions to continue seeing pandemic levels cases of coronavirus infections for the next two years.
Pfizer predicts coronavirus pandemic to last to 2024
On the other hand, other countries will become “endemic” with a low and manageable number of cases during that same period of time. In any case, by 2024 the disease should be endemic worldwide, according to the company.
“When and how exactly this happens will depend on the evolution of the disease, the effectiveness with which society implements vaccines and treatments, and the equitable distribution in places where vaccination rates are low, “Dolsten said.” The emergence of new variants It could also affect how the pandemic continues to unfold, “he added.
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