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- The scientist behind the promising Pfizer coronavirus vaccine with more than 90% efficacy says the drug can end the pandemic.
- BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin explained in an interview that the vaccine protection from symptomatic infections “will have a dramatic effect” on the health crisis.
- Several experts already explained that completely eradicating COVID-19 seems unlikely, but vaccines will help end the pandemic and turn the novel coronavirus into an endemic illness, like the flu.
Pfizer may be getting all the glory in the US. But the coronavirus vaccine that the company announced is more than 90% effective against the pathogen wasn't actually created by Pfizer. A German company called BioNTec developed the mRNA vaccine, which was a first for the industry when it was developed. And now that the BioNTech drug showed incredible efficacy according to interim data, BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin thinks that the drug has the potential to end the pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19, and it isn’t likely to go away anytime soon. The idea of eradicating it is only theoretical. That’s something we heard time and again from experts in the field, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and World Health Organization officials. Factors like the virus’s infectivity, mutations, the unknown efficacy of vaccines, the phased rollouts of vaccines, the major logistical hurdles, the public resistance to immunization, and limited coronavirus immunity make eradication practically impossible. And if the world ever reaches that point, it will take many years until vaccines are improved and enough people get COVID-19 shots routinely. But eradication isn’t necessary in order to end the pandemic — and Şahin says the Pfizer/BioNTech drug can help the world do just that.
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