{"id":134434,"date":"2022-01-20T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/pfizer-ceo-says-omicron-vaccine-will-be-ready-in-march"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:24:14","slug":"pfizer-ceo-says-omicron-vaccine-will-be-ready-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/pfizer-ceo-says-omicron-vaccine-will-be-ready-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer CEO says omicron vaccine will be ready in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfizer-ceo-says-omicron-vaccine-will-be-ready-in-march2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/PFE\" target=\"_blank\">Pfizer<\/a> CEO Albert Bourla on Monday said a vaccine that targets the omicron variant of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/coronavirus\/\">Covid<\/a> will be ready in March, and the company\u2019s already begun manufacturing the doses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vaccine will be ready in March,\u201d Bourla told CNBC\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/squawk-box-us\/\">Squawk Box<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWe [are] already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bourla said the vaccine will also target the other variants that are circulating. He said it is still not clear whether or not an omicron vaccine is needed or how it would be used, but Pfizer will have some doses ready since some countries want it ready as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Monday said a vaccine that targets the omicron variant of Covid will be ready in March, and the company\u2019s already begun manufacturing the doses. \u201cThis vaccine will be ready in March,\u201d Bourla told CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d \u201cWe [are] already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk.\u201d Bourla said the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}