FRANKFURT, Aug 9 — BioNTech said that repeat shots of its Covid-19 vaccine, of which more than a billion doses have now been supplied worldwide, was a better strategy than tailoring the product it developed with Pfizer to new variants. The German biotech firm said that offering a third dose of...
FRANKFURT, Aug 9 — BioNTech said that repeat shots of its Covid-19 vaccine, of which more than a billion doses have now been supplied worldwide, was a better strategy than tailoring the product it developed with Pfizer to new variants.
This compares with AstraZeneca saying last month that it and manufacturing partner Serum Institute of India had supplied a billion doses of its vaccine globally. Pfizer late last month raised its forecast for its share of 2021 vaccine sales to US$33.5 billion and said at the time it believes people will need a third dose of the shot. Pfizer and BioNTech’s decision in early July to seek authorization for a third dose drew criticism from US health regulators, who said there was not yet enough data to show booster shots are needed.
BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin said that although work was ongoing to adjust the vaccine to variants it was not clear whether yet another version of the pathogen would supplant the now prevalent Delta variant.
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