Arrival

12/12/2020 7 min

Episode Synopsis

The vaccines were made by the husband and wife team of Professor Sahin and Özlem Türeci at their German firm BioNTech. Professor Türeci’s father had come to Germany as a refugee from Turkey and found work as a mechanic at the Ford factory. When Sahin was four years old the family followed and the immigrant refugee family settled in Germany.

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