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WHO: Current vaccines will likely protect against severe Omicron cases | New York Post
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1:45Now PlayingThe World Health Organization believes the existing COVID-19 vaccines will offer protection against severe cases of the new Omicron variant, the group’s chief scientist said Wednesday.
“Vaccines are likely to have some protection,” Soumya Swaminathan said during a press conference.
“We still need to find out if there is a loss on protection but we think vaccines will still protect against severe disease as they have against the other variants,” the expert added.
Maria van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, told reporters that the agency expects to have more information about the transmissibility of the emerging variant within days, according to Reuters.
That is faster than the “weeks” the WHO last week predicted it would take to assess the data available on Omicron, which it has designated a “variant of concern,” its highest rating.
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