I did not write the article so I don’t know where in the NYT it says that. I don’t waste my time reading the NYT anyway, for propaganda avoidance reasons. I think J&J stated that their “vaccine” is not effective against omicron, but I have not looked for where I read it. The other “vaccines don’t appear to last long so they are not even effective against the variants they were designed for so I can’t imagine they would be effective against a new variant. Just my dos centavos.
So the article you posted possibly misquotes the Times.
Nowhere does it say anywhere (except in posts such as yours) that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are not effective against the disease they were designed for.
They appear to lose some of their effectiveness after a few months and require boosters, and depending on circumstances of many different kinds, there can be cases that occur despite the vaccine.
It’s important in such serious matters to report the facts faithfully and accurately, even if they seem less exciting than exaggerations and falsehoods.
Lives are still at stake here, even with the relatively mild symptoms of most cases of omicron.