Many younger people may not need COVID-19 boosters, the CEO of Moderna said on Oct. 17.
“I think it’s going to be like the flu. If you’re a 25-year-old do you need an annual booster every year if you’re healthy?” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said during a Yahoo Finance event.
“You might want it because you want to protect older people, you might want it because you don’t want to get sick or miss vacation and so on, but I think it’s going to be similar to flu where it’s going to be people at high risk, people above 50 years of age, people with co-morbidities, people with cancer and of a condition or have transplants, and that’s really important to think about it,” he continued….