Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Sunday that a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be necessary to continue to help keep hospitalizations manageable and sicknesses more mild.

"Right now, the way that we have seen, it is necessary, a fourth booster right now. The protection that you are getting from the third, it is good enough, actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths," Bourla told CBS's "Face the Nation."

"It's not that good against infections but doesn't last very long. But we are just submitting those data to the FDA, and then we will see what the experts also will say outside Pfizer," he added.

Asked if he expects to be able to avoid the same confusion over booster shots that came about when the third vaccine dose was being deployed, Bourla replied, "I think so. And I think right now we need to be very well coordinated, CDC, FDA and the industry so that we are all providing to the American people and to the world a cohesive picture rather than confusion."... Read More: Arutz-7