The Pfizer CEO has just said when he thinks the world will come back to normal
The expert vaccine states that we will probably see a world without pandemic at that time.
Every country in the world has beenAffected by COVID-19 over the last year and a half. But theThe pandemic did not hit every corner from the globe at the same time; He resumed the waves. China was touched the most difficult first at the end of 2019, then the virus quickly expanded to Europe, where was the first major epidemic in Italy. It was not until mid-March 2020 that the United States became the most difficult country. Since then, different countries of U.K. In India fought deadly surge. Now thatVaccines are being distributedBut not necessarily equally, recovery also occurs in the waves. The United States is very similar to the nearby normality once again, as the country is fully vaccinated44% of the entire population, by data from the disease control and prevention centers (CDC). But other countries are not almost in the same place. So, when will the whole world come back to normal? The Pfizer CEO has just weigh.
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CEO of PfizerAlbert Bourla told CNBC on June 16 that it is probably the whole worldwill be without pandemic at the end of next year, who is when he predicted that there will be enoughCovid vaccine doses For most countries to vaccinate their populations against the virus.
"I think the world will have enough volumes [of vaccine doses] at the end of 2022 to vaccinate, to protect everyone," Bourla said during an interview withAndrew Ross Sorkin at the Evolve World Summit of CNBC.
However, he thinks that developed countries will return to normal even earlier than that. "I think that at the end of this year, the developed world will already be in this situation," he said.
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According to Bourla, the majority of doses of anti-Pfizer vaccine have gone into developed countries that have placed orders for shots in advance. Many countries in addition to the United States are alreadyAdminister the Pfizer vaccine, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and UK, as that ABC ABC reports from Australia.
However, Bourla stated that they expect more doses to be sent to developing countries in the fall of this year. Pfizer and Biontech have already committed to providingTwo billion doses of their vaccine to developing countries over the next 18 months, such asWall Street newspaper reported at the end of May. During the European World Health Summit in Rome in Rome at that time, Bourla stated that a billion of these doses will be delivered this year and that the other billions will be sent in 2022.
"We hope that will accelerate our ability to save even more lives around the world," Bourla said.
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