Cause to celebrate with vaccines on the horizon, but we can’t let our guard down until then

There is a long, dark winter still ahead of us, no doubt, but miracles may await us over the horizon. And we can now be sure that the light at the end of this particular tunnel is not an oncoming train.

Uğur Şahin, right, co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, the German company that announced the first effective COVID-19 vaccine recently, pictured on Nov. 10, 2020, in an interview on CNBC. It can’t be rolled out fast enough to reduce infections much in the current wave, he said.Screen capture image courtesy CNBC

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 23, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—All the usual caveats apply: don’t go out and celebrate, don’t let your guard down, it’s still going to be a long haul. This winter will be “hard,” warned Uğur Şahin, co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, the German company that announced the first effective COVID-19 vaccine rec...

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