Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla tests positive for COVID for second time

Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said that it had tested positive for COVID - 19 for the second time in less than two months.

Bourla, who founded the company that created the widely used Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, said he was feeling well and symptom-free.

I have not had the new bivalent booster yet, as I was following the CDC guidelines to wait 3 months since my previous COVID case, which was back in mid-August, Bourla said.

Bourla said that we have made great progress, but the virus is still with us.

Bourla previously announced on August 14 that he had tested positive for the virus and was experiencing mild symptoms.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA approved a coronavirus booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant last month.

As we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to receive a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement at the time.

The shots, which the FDA is referring to as updated boosters, contain two messenger RNA mRNA components of the SARS-CoV 2 virus, one of the original strains of SARS-CoV -- 2 and the other one in common between the BA. 5 lineages of the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2