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The result of the COVID-19 vaccine will be felt significantly next summer and we can probably return to normal life next winter, predicted BBC professor Ugur Shahin, founder of the German company “Biontech” and one of the vaccine founders of Biontech and Pfizer.
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According to Professor Shahin, this winter will be difficult because the vaccine will not significantly change the number of infected people.
Last week, Biontech and Pfizer announced preliminary results of clinical trials of a possible vaccine against COVID-19, which they found to be more than 90 percent effective.
About 43,000 people participated in the study. The vaccine is given in two doses three weeks apart, Monitor writes.
On the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Professor Shahin expressed confidence that the vaccine will reduce the spread of the new coronavirus and prevent symptoms in vaccinated people. He said the vaccine could cut human-to-human transmission of the virus by half. “I am very confident that human-to-human transmission will be reduced with such an effective vaccine, maybe not 90%, probably 50%, but we must not forget that even this will lead to a drastic reduction in the spread of the pandemic.” . he said.
According to him, if things continue so well, the vaccine can be administered “at the end of this year and the beginning of next.”
The goal is to distribute more than 300 million doses worldwide by April next year, which “will only allow us to begin to achieve results.” “Summer will help us because the level of contagion will drop in summer and it is extremely important to achieve a high level of vaccination before or before the fall and winter of next year,” he explained.
Professor Shahin emphasized that it is very important that all immunization programs are completed before next fall.
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