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The CEO of the company that produced the Moderna vaccine, Stéphane Bancel, noted that an increase in the production of COVID doses – 19 will mean that there will be enough vaccinations for “everyone on this Earth” by next year .
He said booster shots will be available soon, as will doses for babies.
With the vaccine industry as a whole expanding, “enough doses should be available by the middle of next year for everyone on this earth can be vaccinated ”, he asserted
“Those who do not get vaccinated will be immunized naturally, because the Delta variant is very contagious,” he added.
In an interview published by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Bancel said “in this way we will end up in a situation similar to influenza. You can get vaccinated and have a good winter. Or you don’t and you risk getting sick and possibly even ending up in the hospital. ”
When asked if that could mean a “return to normal” next year, he replied: “Starting today, in a year, I guess.”
According to figures published by Our World In Data , the 1% of the world population has received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine – 19.
In the countries low-income, only 2.2% of people have received at least one dose, while higher-income countries get more than 20 times faster.
On Tuesday, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, criticized the rich countries for accumulating doses and asked the world to “wake up” the greatest “Cascade of crisis” of our life.
“Most of the richest world have already been vaccinated. More than 90% of Africans are still waiting for their first dose. This is a moral indictment of the state of our world. It’s an obscenity, ”said Guterres.
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