Covid-19 vaccine creator: Life should be back to normal in next winter
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Transmissions could halve, resulting in dramatic reduction in cases’ — Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder

Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of German biotech firm BioNTech, is interviewed by journalists in Marburg, Germany September 17, 2020 Reuters

The impact of a new Covid-19 vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.

Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the virus, resulting in a “dramatic reduction in cases.”

Last week, BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.

About 43,000 people took part in tests, reports BBC.

In an interview on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show, Prof Sahin said he expected further analysis to show the vaccine would reduce transmission between people as well as stop symptoms developing in someone who has had the vaccine.

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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,” he said.

The UK is expected to get 10 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine by the end of the year, 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 residents and staff in care homes are likely to be prioritized, followed by health workers and the over-80s. People would then be ranked by age.

The UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid-19 cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

Oxford prof: Life likely back to normal by spring

After the announcement of the world’s first effective vaccine came on Monday, Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, suggested life could be back to normal by spring.

“I am probably the first guy to say that, but I will say that with some confidence,” he said.

However, Prof Sahin said it would take longer.

Germany September 17, 2020 Reuters

‘Transmissions could halve, resulting in dramatic reduction in cases’ — Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder

The impact of a new Covid-19 vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.

Prof Ugur Sahin, BioNTech co-founder, also raised hopes the jab could halve transmission of the virus, resulting in a “dramatic reduction in cases.”

Last week, BioNTech and co-developers Pfizer said preliminary analysis showed their vaccine could prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19.

About 43,000 people took part in tests, reports BBC.

In an interview on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show, Prof Sahin said he expected further analysis to show the vaccine would reduce transmission between people as well as stop symptoms developing in someone who has had the vaccine.

“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,” he said.

The UK is expected to get 10 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine by the end of the year, 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 residents and staff in care homes are likely to be prioritized, followed by health workers and the over-80s. People would then be ranked by age.

The UK government announced another 24,962 confirmed Covid-19 cases on Sunday, as well as a further 168 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

Oxford prof: Life likely back to normal by spring

After the announcement of the world’s first effective vaccine came on Monday, Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, suggested life could be back to normal by spring.

“I am probably the first guy to say that, but I will say that with some confidence,” he said.

However, Prof Sahin said it would take longer.

If everything continued to go well, he said, the vaccine would begin to be delivered at the “end of this year, beginning of next year.”

He said the goal was to deliver more than 300 million doses worldwide by next April, which “could allow us to only start to make an impact.”

He said the bigger impact would happen later, adding: “Summer will help us because the infection rate will go down in the summer and what is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate until or before autumn/winter next year.”

‘Completing immunization by autumn’

Prof Sahin said it was essential that all immunization programs were completed before next autumn.

The vaccine has given a boost of confidence that an end to the pandemic is close, with the leading scientist behind it hopeful life could return to normal by next winter.