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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrfsp" data-source="post: 2318951" data-attributes="member: 81171">This is not really surprisingly from the ceo of moderna, but still concerning - even if only for public perception. The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective at tackling Omicron than earlier strains of COVID-19. “There is no world, I think, where [the effectiveness] is the same level . . . we had with delta,” Mr Bancel told the Financial Times in an interview at the company’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He added: “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’.”[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/moderna-chief-warns-existing-vaccines-will-struggle-with-omicron-20211130-p59dk9[/URL]</blockquote>