With both Pfizer and Merck now having released effective therapeutic treatment for Covid-19 that will render it significantly less than a threat than it is now, one Pfizer board member is predicting the end of the Covid-19 era come this January.
Pfizer Board Member Predicts COVID Pandemic Over in the U.S. by January
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2021-11-05 19:00:11
Leslie Eastman
Excerpt:
I find it fascinating that after the drubbing the COVID-restriction embracing Democrats received this week, a board member from one of the entities that have prospered during the pandemic is now willing to put a date on the end of the pandemic.
The Covid-19 pandemic could be over in the U.S. by the time President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandates take effect in early January, Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday.
The vaccine requirements from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration take effect on Jan. 4 for any company with at least 100 employees. All affected workers must get either their second Moderna or Pfizer shot or one dose from Johnson & Johnson by that date or face regular testing for the virus.
“These mandates that are going to be put in place by Jan. 4 really are coming on the tail end of this pandemic,” said Gottlieb, who’s also a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. “By Jan. 4,…