Description of Omicron Variant by Uğur Şahin

The new coronavirus variant that has created a kind of ‘panic’ mood all over the world for the past few days of omicron After it became the agenda, the effectiveness of the vaccines on this new variant began to be discussed. Companies producing coronavirus vaccines have started work to determine how effective the vaccines are on the omicron.

BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin, one of the prominent names on this issue, made a statement to the US-based The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper, to those who are worried about the new variant. ‘keep calm‘ told.

A new vaccine may not need to be developed:

Stating that the effects of the mRNA vaccine developed by BioNTech and currently being applied on omicron are continuing, Şahin said, “We have a plan to give people a third dose, and we must stick to that plan and speed it up. with an adapted vaccine whether we will need extra protection will be seen later‘ he said.

Falcon is also The omricon variant may affect vaccinated people more than other variants. However, he stated that the protection effect of the vaccine will continue at the point of preventing severe disease. We will have to wait for the results of the ongoing studies to learn the exact effects of the BioNTech vaccine against the variant.