EYECARE: Coronavirus BRIEFING: The Latest COVID-19 Data Covid-19 Booster Shot Likely Needed Within 12 Months, Pfizer's CEO Says By Staff Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:01 AM What we're trying to do at Moderna, actually, is to get a flu vaccine in the clinic this year and then combine a flu vaccine to a COVID vaccine so that you only have to get one boost at your local CVS store, at your GP every year, that will protect you to a variant of concern against COVID and a seasonal flu strain. Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel, commenting in an interview last week with CNBC, as reported by NBC News in its report, “Covid-19 Booster Shot Likely Needed Within 12 Months, Pfizer's CEO Says.”