The man behind the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine said he’s optimistic that massive drug distribution efforts will return the world to a sense of normalcy by next winter.

CEO Ugur Sahin, who cofounded BioNTech with his wife, Ozlem Tureci, said it will be “absolutely essential” to immunize the majority of the population by next fall if that goal is going to be met.

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