Pfizer CEO Says an Omicron-Targeted Vaccine Will Be Ready in March

Pfizer CEO Says an Omicron-Targeted Vaccine Will Be Ready in March
Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer pharmaceutical company, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Jan. 17, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, said a COVID-19 vaccine that specifically targets the Omicron variant of the virus as well as already circulating variants “will be ready in March.”

“This vaccine will be ready in March. I don’t know how if we will need it, I don’t know how it will be used, but it will be ready, and in fact, we [are] already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk,” Bourla told CNBC on Monday.