Moderna CEO on Thursday said new coronavirus strains are likely to emerge and countries will be required to get booster shots of the two-dose covid-19 vaccine as the southern hemisphere heads toward winter months from June.
Speaking on a panel on CNBC, Stephane Bancel said, that over the next six months, as the Southern Hemisphere enters the fall and winter, we could see more variants of concern emerge, adding that booster shots will be needed as the virus is not going anywhere.
The comment comes a day after Moderna announced that a third dose of either its current COVID-19 shot or an experimental new vaccine candidate increases immunity against variants of COVID-19, first found in Brazil and South Africa.