Health worker at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Colmar, FranceROME 18 Jan Pfizer CEO Albert Burla believes that COVID-19 will not disappear within a few years, but the means available to mankind will soon allow a return to the old life. «I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I think that we will have to live for several years with a virus that is very difficult to eradicate, it has spread all over the world, can infect the same person several times and has so many mutations that we have rediscovered the Greek alphabet,» he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica. Answering the question whether the appearance of the Omicron strain means the end of the pandemic, the head of the American company said that “no one can say this.” “The question is not so much whether the virus will disappear or not, but whether m whether we return to normal life. I think that we will succeed, probably in the spring. Thanks to all the means at our disposal: tests, very effective vaccines (which protect against the risk of hospitalization and death even from Omicron) and the first medicines that can be taken at home,” said Burla. Speaking about this, he noted that a specialized Paxlovid will be available in French pharmacies at the end of January.
