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\nHong Kong: Drugmaker Moderna\u2019s CEO (MRNA.O) set off fresh alarm bells in financial markets on Tuesday after he warned that COVID-19 vaccines were unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant as they have been against the Delta version. Crude oil futures shed more than a dollar, the Australian currency hit a year low, and Nikkei gave up gains as St\u00e9phane Bancel\u2019s comments spurred fears that vaccine resistance could lead to more sickness and hospitalisations, prolonging the pandemic. \u201cThere is no world, I think, where (the effectiveness) is the same level?.?.?. we had with Delta,\u201d Moderna CEO Bancel told the Financial Times in an interview. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a material drop. I just don\u2019t know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I\u2019ve talked to?.?.?. are like \u2018this is not going to be good\u2019,\u201d Bancel said. Bancel had earlier said on CNBC that there should be more clarity on the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron in about two weeks, and that it could take months to begin shipping a vaccine that work against the new variant. Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
alarming Hong Kong: Drugmaker Moderna\u2019s CEO (MRNA.O) set off fresh alarm bells in financial markets on Tuesday after he warned that COVID-19 vaccines were unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant as they have been against the Delta version. Crude oil futures shed more than a dollar, the Australian currency hit a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n