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Why an approved coronavirus vaccine may not end the pandemic quickly

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September 9, 2020
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Why an approved coronavirus vaccine may not end the pandemic quickly


Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk did warn you.

In May, when the electric vehicle’s stock was less than half its current value (adjusted for the split), Musk famously tweeted that his company was overvalued. Investors finally shared that view on Tuesday when the stock dropped 21%, its worst-ever decline, after S&P Dow Jones Indices didn’t allow Tesla
TSLA,
-21.06%

into the S&P 500.

Since Sept. 2, the worst Nasdaq-100 performers have been Tesla, electronic-signature provider DocuSign
DOCU,
-4.91%
,
semiconductor manufacturing company KLA
KLAC,
-9.77%
,
Zoom Video Communications
ZM,
-5.13%
,
and computer game company Nvidia
NVDA,
-5.62%

— all except KLA have at least doubled in price this year.

While the timing perhaps came out of the blue, the actual declines can be explained away as a correction to irrational exuberance, for the technology sector in particular.

Also read: Here’s the silver lining — stocks have done well after similar Nasdaq corrections

But one reason for the market’s swagger, at least until September, was the work from multiple companies on a coronavirus vaccine. Evercore ISI hosted a call on this subject, and the takeaway was sobering.

Speaking before the news that AstraZeneca halted its COVID-19 trial because of an illness, analyst Josh Schimmer pointed out that in most vaccines, pharmaceutical companies settle for lower rates of immunity in exchange for better tolerability. Now, he said, companies are pushing the protective profile to go for maximum effect, knowing it may come with more side effects. He put greater than 50/50 odds that the first vaccines will work well — which he defined as either 90% reduction in event rates, or a strong benefit for severe cases.

AstraZeneca
AZN,
-1.44%
,
along with the vaccines created by the Pfizer
PFE,
-1.18%

/BioNTech
BNTX,
+2.15%

collaboration and Moderna
MRNA,
-13.19%
,
were seen as the most likely to complete the late-stage trial by October. The Novavax
NVAX,
-8.20%

vaccine, which many investors see as their favorite according to Schimmer, is expected to complete Phase 3 in December.

But the next most likely scenario is they work but not great, like the flu vaccine, in which case, the impact on alleviating the pandemic would be limited. “I don’t know if a 60% efficacy COVID vaccine gets us out of this mess quickly,” he said. In that scenario, the hope would be that the second wave of vaccines work better, to “switch vaccine horses midstream if better ones come along.”

There is a lower chance the vaccines don’t work, or make infections worse, or have problematic side effects, he added.

More positively, analyst Vijay Kumar said newly approved rapid, point-of-care antigen tests will be helpful in reopening the economy and alleviate the testing constraints. He said by the first half of next year, anyone who wants a test can go get tested.

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