Moderna's CMO (Chief Medical Officer), Paul Burton, said that they would create new COVID-19 vaccines for the Omicron variant. He added that these medicines could arrive as early as 2022, thanks to the company's efficient medical platform.
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He added that if there's a need for new vaccines, Moderna can produce them as early as 2022. The CMO even said that Moderna's platform could produce these new medicines quickly.
"The remarkable thing about the mRNA vaccines, the Moderna platform, is that we can move very fast," he explained.
However, since the new vaccines specifically for Omicron are still non-existent, Burton suggested that the best thing people can do is get vaccinated with the current COVID-19 vaccines. You can view this link to see more details.
Will There be New Safety Measures Against Omicron?
BBC News explained that not much about the new COVID-19 variant is known yet. Health experts said that it is still hard to actually implement new ones for the new virus when it comes to safety measures.
However, they added that more efficient anti-COVID-19 actions would greatly help people, as well as health experts, to have more time to administer vaccine boosters, as well as create new vaccines.
In other news, Alberta Canada's COVID-19 vaccine records website was shut down because of the alleged data breach.
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Written by: Griffin Davis
