Chennai: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said there is a good chance the company will know if its Covid-19 vaccine works by October.
In a recent interview, Bourla said it is not yet known whether people in the US will be able to receive the Covid-19 vaccine before 2021 as it depends on the issuance of licence.
He, however, said that studies conducted by Pfizer indicated that there is a good chance they will know if the vaccine works by the end of October.
At a time when the whole country is waiting with bated breath for Covid-19 vaccine, Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, has come up with a shocker.
While a vaccine for Covid-19 could be first made publicly available anywhere from this month to the end of September depending on which vaccine you want and where you live, the odds of everyone on the planet being able to access one are low until at least 2024, he said.
Speaking to Financial Times, Adar Poonawalla said that it would take four to five years until everyone gets the vaccine on the planet.
He added that distribution in India would be difficult given the lack of a sophisticated cold chain system.
“I still don’t see a proper plan on paper to do that (in India) beyond 400 million doses…you don’t want a situation with the vaccine where you have capacity for your country but you can’t consume it,” he was quoted as saying.