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Moderna CEO predicts vaccines will be less effective against omicron variant

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“All the scientists I’ve talked to…are like, ‘This is not going to be good,’” Stéphane Bancel told the Financial Times.
Hard data is still weeks away, but Moderna’s CEO is already expecting vaccines to struggle with the omicron variant of COVID. “All the scientists I’ve talked to…are like, ‘This is not going to be good,’” Stéphane Bancel told the Financial Times in an interview published Tuesday. It’s still unclear whether the omicron variant, first discovered in South Africa, will evade vaccines and/or spread more rapidly than the delta variant, but the number of mutations has experts worried. “I think it’s going to be a material drop (in effectiveness),” Bancel told the publication.

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