Moderna CEO: Vaccines Likely Less Effective Against Omicron Variant

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The head of drugmaker Moderna said COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as they have been previously, sparking fresh worry in financial markets about the trajectory of the pandemic.

"There is no world, I think, where (the effectiveness) is the same level . . . we had with Delta," Moderna Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel told the Financial Times in an interview.

"I think it's going to be a material drop. I just don't know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I've talked to . . . are like 'this is not going to be good.'"

Vaccine resistance could lead to more sickness and hospitalisations and prolong the pandemic, and his comments triggered selling in growth-exposed assets like oil, stocks and the Australian dollar.

Bancel added that the high number of mutations on the protein spike the virus uses to infect human cells meant it was likely the current crop of vaccines would need to be modified.

He had earlier said on CNBC that it could take months to begin shipping a vaccine that does work against Omicron.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-ceo-says-vaccines-likely-less-effective-against-omicron-ft-2021-11-30/

 

 

Well...,

 

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2nd booster we go

[LeJudas 6,490]

Can we wait until Multiverse of Madness drops first? Like  it already got delayed three times please

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Maybe if they stopped gatekeeping the recipe and let more counties produced the vaccine, we’d be out of this way quicker 

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1 minute ago, LeJudas said:

Can we wait until Multiverse of Madness drops first? Like  it already got delayed three times please

I understand your concerns. But it is currently reshoots because apparently Feige didn't like the ones that been finished.   

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Ugh this scares me so much 

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Someone wanna make some extra money it seems

Yesterday I heard on the news that the vaccines are effective against the new variant

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24 minutes ago, LeJudas said:

Can we wait until Multiverse of Madness drops first? Like  it already got delayed three times please

The most important concern

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this is insane wtf 

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I wish CEOs would stfu about these things until the data is conclusive. What's the point of saying this when scientists are still studying the variant and have no definitive answer yet? People are already (understandably) panicking about the new variant and there is no need to make things worse before we have clearer answers.

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A CEO stirs up the idea that their product might be needed in masse? I NEVER!

I'm not worrying about the Big O until I have to. That said: Getting that booster stat!

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The journey continues...

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I think I'm just gonna ignore headlines about this until the actual data comes out

"It looks like it's milder than Delta"

"It has worse symptoms than Delta"

"It's going to evade vaccines!"

"Vaccines just as effective"

"Vaccines less effective"

"It's not as transmissive as we think"

"It has higher transmissibility"

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I read in some places that even though this variant has a lot of mutations, the people who have been infected so far have recovered fast with mild symptoms. This version is likely to be the most infectious though. This can be a good thing in a way. If a weaker version of the virus spread more easily, shouldn't we be able to cope with vaccines and "herd immunity"? Wouldn't this actually help to make a more dominant 'weak' version? 

 

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