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Following the announcement of the production of a new antivirus vaccine, which was recently announced by the American company “Pfizer” and the German “Biontech”, which gave the world hope for the end of the ordeal of the epidemic, the German scientist of Turkish origin Ugur Shaheen revealed many of the secrets that accompanied the production of the vaccine in an interview with “Sky News”.
Shaheen, the founding partner of the biochemical company “Biontech”, who and his wife, Ozlam Tourej, became the focus of global attention this week, said he expected the vaccine to start shipping in Britain in mid-December.
But he stressed that the matter depends on the licenses granted by the authorities for the vaccine, so the earliest date will not be before the middle of next month.
Even with the distribution of the vaccine, no radical change will occur, according to the German scientist, who warned of a harsh winter.
“The winter will be tough and it will get worse before conditions start to improve,” Shaheen said, adding that “pending the completion of security checks and government approvals, the best thing to do is wear a mask. and maintain social distancing. “
He continued: “Everyone has a responsibility, and the issue is not limited to governments, and the most important thing here is to wear a mask and be careful and avoid staying in one room for too long.”
Shaheen expected life to return to normal by the middle of next year in Britain, Europe and the United States.
In the interview, which he spoke from his home in Germany, Shaheen referred to the manufacturing stages of the vaccine, starting last January, after news began to flow about the presence of a virus in China.
He said: “We scientists weren’t expecting it to be effective, as our expectations were in the 60-80 percent range.”
Shaheen cited the “only pressure” that came through in the vaccine industry, saying, “It wasn’t a race between them, it was a race against time.”
He said he would get the vaccine the first day it was allowed.
The German scientist has a television at home and goes to work by bicycle, despite the fact that the market value of his company has reached 21,000 million dollars.
He said that all he wanted was to focus on his work, considering himself middle class, and said he wanted nothing more than a normal life.
The scientist emigrated from Turkey, his home country, with his family when he was four years old, and lived and studied in Germany until he obtained a doctorate in medicine at the University of Saarland in 1993.
And when Professor Shaheen came across a scientific paper on the Corona virus outbreak in Wuhan, China in January this year, he was surprised at how similar the cancer drugs were to those needed for potential viral vaccines.
He said that “it was clear that the possibility of Corona turning into a pandemic is great”, and hoped that the epidemic would reach Germany, adding: “So it was logical that we start working quickly, so there is no time to to lose”.
Shaheen Özlam Tureigi met at work, and together they established a company in 2001, and married the following year.
In 2008, they co-founded the company “Biontech” and that same year they sold their first company for more than a billion dollars.
The company quickly appointed 500 employees to work on potential compounds for the expected vaccine, and last March it had the support of the US company “Pfizer” and another Chinese company.
After less than 9 months, the couple were the first two people to offer real hope to the world about the end of the epidemic, according to “Sky News.”
