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Telling the financial times -- and maybe of sounds like im clutching at straws, but theres so much we dont know. anything somebody says seems to be worth mentioning and trying to get more information about. so the ceo of moderna says he thinks there will be, quote, a material drop, end quote, in the effectiveness of the moderna vaccine against omicron. that shook the markets. a, what do you -- i mean what do you make of that? how do you interpret that? do you share that level of concern? >> i th...

Sales, it is giving tuesday. how you can give back this holiday season. this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. discouraging words tonight from the head of vaccine maker moderna, quoted as saying there could be a material drop in the effectiveness of current vaccines against the omicron variant. while late today pfizer filed for approval of booster shots for 16 and 17-year-olds, hoping to protect as many people as possible scientists are feverishly trying to understand th...

Least not right now as far as moderna or j&j or pfizer, theyre not specifically tweaked for the omicron variant, at least not yet. we know some of these companies are working on that. still, that does give you some level of protection from any variant, right? >> it does give us the level of protection. if you remember going back over a year ago, we were hoping for 50% effectiveness against the virus in the vaccine. we got to the high 90s and were happy with that. when the delta variant came alon...

He added... that could take weeks, or even months. in the meantime, several major vaccine manufacturers have said they are ready to tweak their shots if needed. and china, which produces its own vaccines, is taking similar steps. translation: it is stilll currently unclear if these mutations in the omicron variant can lead to vaccines being less effective. however, china has already made the technological preparations to adapt our vaccines. despite questions over the effectiveness of current vac...

With increased testing for specific international arrivals this illustration shows the omicron variant compared to the delta strain notice how many more mutations it has it turns out it was on the move earlier than we thought the first known cases reported in botswana on november 11th officials in the netherlands also say the strain was apparently already in the country at least a week earlier than previously believed. still, u.s. officials say it could be two weeks before we have more solid inf...

Back and forth between our country and southern africa and eur eur european countries and others that have omicron, so we need to ramp up our surveillance. understand there are other tools we have at our disposal, including rapid testing which is available, and thats something i wish the biden administration would focus on, getting that test to every american. >> indias health mission says there are testing that protect against the omicron variant. what testing of effectiveness would give you co...

Antibody tends to give you some cross-protection to variants. and i hope the israeli minister is correct, and further research reinforces this because we certainly need to boost peoples notions that getting a booster is very important as well as getting that first dose into a lot of our friends and neighbors who somehow havent rolled up their sleeve yet. >> the fda advisers voting tonight to recommend emergency use authorization for mercks antiviral drug to treat covid-19. how big a deal is it? ...

12 hours, give us the result to whether or not this omicron variant is encompassed by the vaccines instead of putting the world economy on hold until we get that answer. >> martha: theres some indications in israel that they have done that and found that the current vaccines seem to be having some effectiveness, early to say but early indications thats the case and we hope it is. look at this quote from the moderna ceo. she says theres no world i think where the effectiveness is the same level. ...

Have said they are ready to tweak their shots if needed. and china, which produces its own vaccines, is taking similar steps. translation: it is stilll currently unclear if these mutations in the omicron variant can lead to vaccines being less effective. however, china has already made the technological preparations to adapt our vaccines. despite questions over the effectiveness of current vaccines against the new variant, countries are renewing their efforts to administer the jabs to their popu...

The back of the fed chair. with a positive restart and rebound in store and thats similar to what weve seen in the european session. yesterday, european stocks sold off. and today, european markets are rebounding. >> of course, its the pandemic that influences the economy the most. the fda advisers yesterday voted 13-10 to recommend authorization of a bill to treat covid-19. despite some lingering concerns about the drugs safety and effectiveness. what more can you tell us about that? >> well, t...