Pfizer CEO: “Netanyahu convinced me that Israel is the right place for our vaccines”

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Pfizer CEO Albert Burla was interviewed by News 12 tonight (Thursday), explaining why Israel was chosen as the first country in the world to be vaccinated. Burla praised the Israeli health system and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and pledged that Israel would continue to receive vaccines from the company. “Vaccines will take time around the world, and we knew it was right for humanity to choose one country through which to demonstrate what the vaccine would do to health and the economy,” Burla said.

Referring to the question of why the State of Israel was elected, he said: “I talked to some heads of state and your prime minister convinced me that Israel is the right country, it has a small population, an excellent health system, there is a high level of electronic data covering 99 percent of the country.

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Bolra shared his conversations with the Prime Minister: “He called me to ask about children and pregnant women. I was impressed by his obsession, he called me more than 30 times, even at 3 in the morning. I know that Israel is good at managing crises and living in a state of almost constant war, and we are very happy that we gambled on Israel. “

Earlier in the day, Burla said at a news conference that teens could be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine as early as the fall, and children of elementary age by the end of the year. It also updated that the company will be able to meet the target and deliver 120 million vaccine doses to the United States by March. Thus, in the next three weeks they will have to deliver another 60 million rations to the country.

Burla noted that Pfizer and its partner at Yontech are expected to produce about 20 percent more vaccines this year than expected, reaching between 2.3 and 2.4 billion doses. “This year we will clearly go over the amount of two billion rations.”

Meanwhile, Modrah’s medical director, Dr. Tal Zacks, was also interviewed by News 12 and said that the company estimates that the vaccine for children will be approved in the spring or summer months: “We did a vaccine separately for children and in the coming weeks we will see the results. Here she is to vaccinate them as quickly as possible, especially for the beginning of the next school year. ”

He said, “We are starting to see the good data in the US and there is less morbidity among those who are vaccinated. If we look at it in general, it seems that the vaccine not only prevents asymptomatic disease, but also reduces disease, I think we can conclude indirectly that the vaccines prevent infection. “

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