Daily US Times: The impact of a new coronavirus vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and by next winter, life should be back to normal, one of its creators has said.
BioNTech co-founder Prof Ugur Sahin also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the coronavirus, resulting in a “dramatic reduction in cases”.
BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said in last week that preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.
About 43,000 people took part in the vaccine tests.
Prof Sahin said in an interview on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that he expected further analysis to stop symptoms developing in someone who has had the vaccine as well as to show the vaccine would reduce transmission between people as well as .
He said: “I’m very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine – maybe not 90% but maybe 50% – but we should not forget that even that could result in a dramatic reduction of the pandemic spread.”
By the end of this year, the United Kingdom is expected to get 10 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, with a further 30 million doses already ordered. The jab, which was trialled in six countries, is given in two doses, three weeks apart.
Older staff and residents in care homes are likely to be prioritised, followed by health workers and the over-80s and people would then be ranked by age.
After the announcement of the world’s first effective vaccine came on Monday, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, Sir John Bell, suggested life could be back to normal by spring.
He said: “I am probably the first guy to say that, but I will say that with some confidence.”
Coronavirus has huge impact on peoples daily life all over the world, People desperately want to back to their normal life and a vaccine could have a big deal for that.
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