The surge of coronavirus infections in developing countries such as India amid a relative scarcity of vaccine supply means that the pandemic will keep spreading until mid-2022, according to the inventors of the BioNTech vaccine
The surge of coronavirus infections in developing countries such as India amid a relative scarcity of vaccine supply means that the pandemic will keep spreading until mid-2022, according to the inventors of the firstBecause of the urgency, authorities should consider such measures as mixing and matching vaccines from different manufacturers, said the founders of BioNTech SE at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit on Tuesday. The German company teamed up with Pfizer Inc.
“We need to ensure really high vaccination rates world-wide. Otherwise, no one will be safe,” said Uğur Şahin, BioNTech’s chief executive officer. He said the pandemic would only end when herd immunity is accomplished world-wide. “By mid-2022, even regions with high density populations like India will reach a high rate of vaccination and herd immunity,” Dr. Şahin said. “We will see in the next 12 months an increasing number of industrial, developing and low-income countries reaching this type of herd immunity just by increasing the manufacturing capacity of the currently existing players and adding new manufacturing sites.
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