(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 28 - If a new vaccine against Covid Moderna's Omicron lavariant is needed, it will be able to "produce it on a large scale by the beginning of next year. According to the Chief Medical Officer of the US company, Paul Burton, according to The Guardian reported.
"We have to be confident, we have learned a lot about Covdie about how to deal with it," he said, stressing that "it's a dangerous looking virus, but we now have many tools in our armory to fight it, so I'm optimistic."
Burton explained. that a more precise idea of the effectiveness of vaccines against the Omicron variant will be in the "next two weeks", but if a new vaccine is needed, "it could be produced on a large scale bybeginning of 2022 ". (ANSA).