Pfizer CEO says life will be 'back to normal' within a year but doesn't rule ...

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Sunday that the U.S. should return to normal within the year as his COVID-19 booster was approved for the elderly and other higher risk communities.

'Finally, Moderna's CEO said this week that the pandemic is on course to be over in about a year. Do you agree with that?' ABC This Week host George Stephanapoulos asked Bourla on Sunday.

'I agree that, within a year, I think we will be able to come back to normal life,' he concurred.

'I don't think that this means that variants will not be continuing coming,' Bourla countered. 'And I don't think that this means that we should be able to live our lives without having vaccinations, basically. But that's – again, remains to be seen.'

He said that the most likely outcome is that people will need to continue to get coronavirus booster vaccines annually, similar to how people get the flu shot each year to protect against the most likely variant

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