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Novavax: A COVID vaccine for the hesitant
Frontiersman ^ | 08/15/2021 | Dr. Samuel Abbate

Posted on 08/22/2021 6:35:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Many people have been hesitant to get any of the currently available “vaccines” for COVID-19. Why? Because they are uncomfortable taking an injection of viral genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA) into the cells throughout their bodies. Messenger RNA is the genetic code that the body uses to produce a protein that the virus. The particular protein that is made allows the virus to attach itself to the cells of your body. The current COVID-19 products represent the first time this technology has been used in humans. Little is known about the long-term effects of this technology.

I will not cite any negative data about the currently available mRNA products. I do not want to be accused of spreading misinformation. Instead I want to encourage those who have concerns about the currently available vaccines that there is a vaccine that is in development and will hopefully be available later this year. It is called Novavax.

Novavax is made up of an antigen (the spike protein from COVID-19) combined with an adjuvant. An antigen is a protein that the immune system does not recognize as belonging to your body and so it raises antibodies against it. An adjuvant is a substance the boosts the body’s response to the antigen. A two-dose regimen administered 21 days apart is safe and associated with a robust immune response.

The protein is made in the laboratory using the genetic material from the virus. This process is similar to how insulin is made commercially. The spike protein cannot replicate itself in your body. Novavax cannot cause infection. The amount of protein introduced is consistent from person to person.

Novavax is much more similar to traditional vaccines even though it uses new technology. Therefore, I believe that many of the vaccine hesitant will be willing to take it. You should feel comfortable taking it. Again, the choice should always be yours to make in consultation with your medical provider.

On June 30, 2021 the New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study of over 15,000 persons in England titled: Safety and Efficacy of NVX-CoV2373 Covid-19 Vaccine. Novavax was 89.7% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections. It was 86.3% effective against the alpha variant and 96.4% effective against other variants of the virus. The results are better than the currently available vaccines produce.

Reported side effects included injection-site tenderness, fatigue, headache, and muscle pain. Adverse events were similar in the vaccine and placebo groups (0.5% in each), and no deaths were attributed to the receipt of the vaccine. Novovax has an excellent safety profile.

It is likely that we are heading for a time when vaccination will be required to fully engage in social activities, e.g. air travel. I will avoid any discussion of medical privacy, personal autonomy, natural immunity or government intrusion. Instead I support using a safe, effective, more traditionally-made vaccine that can be taken with confidence. I hope that the FDA will approve the use of Novavax – it can prevent COVID and cure hesitancy.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: chinavirusvaccine; covid; hesitancy; novavax; vaccine; vaxxx
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To: SeekAndFind
viral genetic material

Right there!



61 posted on 08/22/2021 8:04:32 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Fai Mao

The “COVID-19” virus has NEVER BEEN ISOLATED. Both the FDA and the CDC admit this— the PCR tests were calibrated using coronavirus of the common cold.


62 posted on 08/22/2021 8:05:36 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Fai Mao

They actually grow the virus in moth cells, and then purify the cells to extract just the spike proteins. The injection is pure spike protein.


63 posted on 08/22/2021 8:08:55 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only difference with Norvax is that they inject spike protein right into you as opposed to turning your body into a spike protein factory. Why this incessant push to only target the spike protein? The virus has already figured out a way around this insanely narrow pressure.


64 posted on 08/22/2021 8:09:13 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please let me help you a little bit:

Many people have been hesitant to get any of the currently available “vaccines” for COVID-19. Why? Because they are uncomfortable taking an injection of viral genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA) into the cells throughout their bodies since little is known about the long-term effects of this technology.

You had the right words, just maybe not in quite the right place. Glad I could help.

Wy69


65 posted on 08/22/2021 8:11:46 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: Jim Noble

“ False. ”

Feel free to show me another mRNA based vaccine that’s in widespread use in humans.


66 posted on 08/22/2021 8:12:57 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hesitant? Never considered it from the beginning. Not hesitant or anti-vax. We don’t get flu shots or pneumonia shots either.


67 posted on 08/22/2021 8:16:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

Weird how everyone keeps leaving this out. Murdered babies is an automatic no from me.


68 posted on 08/22/2021 8:23:44 PM PDT by roving
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To: backwoods-engineer

Not true.


69 posted on 08/22/2021 8:42:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: packagingguy

Sooooo.....might be good to wait a couple months AFTER Novavax is first administered to see how this works on those who it.


70 posted on 08/22/2021 9:02:45 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Screw all vaccines. Forever. The vaccine industry is pure evil

“Vaccinations only prove that you can inject someone
with highly acidic toxic poisonous chemicals and that person
hopefully surviving the debilitating side effects, such as multiple
sclerosis, lesions on the brain, paralysis, breakdown of the red
and white blood cells, ulcerations of the liver, lung, kidney, pancreas,
stomach and bowels, seizures and death. Vaccinations provide
zero immunity. True immunity that leads to health and fitness
can only be achieved by making healthy lifestyle and dietary choices.”


71 posted on 08/22/2021 9:12:00 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: walkingdead

RE: Why this incessant push to only target the spike protein? The virus has already figured out a way around this insanely narrow pressure.

OK, which aspect of the Coronavirus should a vaccine be targeting?

Your observations sounds like two basketball teams playing against each other one on defense (your body ) and the other on offense ( the virus ).

You seem to be saying that targeting your defense on the star scorer ( the spike protein ) makes you vulnerable to the other scorers who are left defenseless.

So, how do we develop a super vaccine that recognizes all the other aspects of the virus?


72 posted on 08/22/2021 9:12:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: Truthoverpower

RE: Screw all vaccines. Forever. The vaccine industry is pure evil

Are you saying “ALL” as in — small pox, polio, measles, hepatitis, etc.? We should not be inoculating anyone with these vaccines too?


73 posted on 08/22/2021 9:14:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: logi_cal869

RE: A ‘vaccine’ for me - i.e. RECOVERED - would be FREEDOM from the tyrannical pressure/coercion and RECOGNITION that we’re IMMUNE.

Well good for you. You got the disease and recovered and have natural immunity. But how do you advise someone who is unvaccinated and have never had the infection? Would you advise the person to RISK being infected in order to get natural immunity?


74 posted on 08/22/2021 9:16:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Novavax: A COVID vaccine for the hesitant”

well sure, if you’re willing to be injected with Novavax’s secret proprietary ingredient, Matrix-M, because their vaccine is too weak to work without it ...


75 posted on 08/22/2021 9:21:37 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: markman46

That was my question.

Here’s my next one... where did they grow the spike proteins they inject?


76 posted on 08/22/2021 9:21:50 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: ransomnote

Looks like “somebody” made novaVax an offer they couldn’t refuse.


77 posted on 08/22/2021 9:24:44 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping


78 posted on 08/22/2021 9:30:40 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Matthew 24:10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. )
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To: SeekAndFind

You’re playing Straw man.

So my question is, What’s your motivation?

The proper answer is that I’m not a doctor, so my advice would be to self-educate IN SPITE OF ALL THE CENSORSHIP, GOVERNMENT COERCION/PROPAGANDA and BIASED MEDIA PROMOTION in the face of viable alternatives to getting a wholly experimental shot when over 70% of the population is at greater risk of dying in a car crash than this virus.

The ‘risk’ of infection is FAR LOWER for that 70% than getting this shot. At least to an intelligent, self-educated man.

Satisfied, smartass?


79 posted on 08/22/2021 9:34:23 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

RE: So my question is, What’s your motivation?

My motivation? TO FIND THE BEST APPROACH TO DEALING WITH THIS VIRUS. I don’t care if my initial understanding is wrong as long as someone corrects me with the truth.

RE: The ‘risk’ of infection is FAR LOWER for that 70% than getting this shot.

OK, here’s my question, where are you getting the 70% figure from?


80 posted on 08/22/2021 9:46:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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