Vaccines Will Likely Be Less Effective for Omicron

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told the Financial Times that existing vaccines will be much less effective at tackling Omicron than earlier strains of coronavirus.

Said Bancel: “There is no world, I think, where the effectiveness is the same level… I think it’s going to be a material drop.”

He added: “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.’”