The lead scientist for the world’s first approved coronavirus vaccine has warned that the lethal virus will be here for several years. Wion reported.
Ugur Sahin, Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Principal Investigator and CEO of BioNTech, said: “The virus will stay with us for the next 10 years. We have to get used to the fact that there will be more outbreaks. ”He added that the world now needs a new definition of ‘normal’.
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Sahin noted that 60-70 percent of the world’s population needs to be inoculated to prevent new outbreaks of Covid-19, the Wion aggregate report.
Pfizer, based in the US, partnered with Germany’s BioNTech to produce a coronavirus vaccine that was developed and approved within a year. The vaccine came under scrutiny after some medical staff who took it reported allergic reactions.
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A US official stated that the frequency of allergic reactions to it is higher than previously anticipated, CNN reported.
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