Moderna’s Concerns About Omicron Outlook Spark Market Slump

  • One founder says the mutations point to ‘serious threat’
  • CEO Stephane Bancel spooks markets with comments to FT
WATCH: Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan discusses omicron and the process of developing a new targeted vaccine.Source: Bloomberg
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Moderna Inc.’s top executives reiterated that the omicron variant’s many mutations suggest new vaccines will be needed, triggering a drop in financial markets.

“The number of mutations on this virus are surprising,” co-founder Noubar Afeyan said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “We have to take it for the serious threat that it poses.”