2020 has been a long wait for the pandemic to finally end, and with the Pfizer crisis COVID-19
vaccine may finally be close.
Scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, who have dedicated their lives to finding cures for infectious diseases and cancer, helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine than by Pfizer.
Positive data on BioNTech and US partner Pfizer Inc. COVID-19 The vaccine is an unlikely success for the married couple behind the German biotech company, who have dedicated their lives to harnessing the immune system against cancer. Pfizer said Monday that its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a large study.
Pfizer and BioNTech are the first drug manufacturers to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. The companies said they have found no serious security issues so far and hope to apply for an emergency use authorization in the United States later this month.
From humble roots as the son of a Turkish immigrant working at a Ford factory in Cologne, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, 55, is now among the 100 richest Germans, along with his wife and board member. directive Oezlem Tuereci, 53, according to the weekly. Welt am Sonntag.
Sahin said The Guardian, that the vaccine ‘will work’.
“If the question is, can we stop this pandemic with this vaccine, then my answer is: yes, because I think even protection against only symptomatic infections will have a dramatic effect,” he said.
“The vaccine makes it difficult COVID-19 to have access to our cells. But even if the virus manages to get in, the T cells hit it on the head and kill it. We have trained the immune system very well to perfect these two defensive movements. We now know that the virus cannot defend itself against these mechanisms, “he explained.
While the efficacy of the vaccine can be demonstrated, are there any side effects? A report in Daily mail of volunteers compared the effects of the jab to those of a “severe hangover.” Many claimed the injection left them with headaches, muscle aches and fever, just like flu shots.
A 45-year-old publicist who volunteered said the first dose left her with the side effects she experienced from the flu shot, but she experienced symptoms of serious side effects after she was given her second injection.
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