The company’s COVID-19 vaccine is awaiting FDA authorization. But is there a need for it?
https://www.phillyvoice.com/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-fda-authorization-mrna-alternative/
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Although the U.S. commitment eventually expanded to $1.8 billion, hardly any Novavax shots have found arms due to manufacturing issues, and most of the world has moved on. Novavax stock has plummeted from $290 a share in February 2021 to around $50 recently.
The FDA finally appears poised to authorize the company’s vaccine, however. If it does, Novavax would target the tens of millions of Americans who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 or would benefit from boosters but have avoided mRNA vaccines because of health concerns or conspiracy theories about their dangers.
In clinical trials, Novavax’s two-dose vaccine has worked well and had few safety problems. It appears to cause fewer unpleasant reactions — fever, chills and exhaustion — associated with mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.
Novavax also relies on a more time-tested technology, using recombinant proteins grown in cell cultures. An influenza vaccine produced much the same way as Novavax’s shot has been on the market in the United States for nearly a decade.
“I do think there is a minority group who would take a protein vaccine over an mRNA vaccine,” said Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, director of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the University of Maryland. She was a researcher in a major U.S. trial of the Novavax vaccine, which found it 100% effective at preventing anything worse than mild COVID-19.
With the FDA’s authorization, Novavax’s product would be the first vaccine produced in India for U.S. consumption. Novavax turned to the Serum Institute of India, a seasoned manufacturer that makes vaccines for poor countries, when its subcontractor in Texas, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, stopped producing the vaccine last summer after it was dinged by FDA inspectors for inadequate contamination control, missing records and other problems.
This is the one that I was waiting for, but have had Covid twice a little over a year apart... so probably won’t bother.
Seems to me that it’s devolving into a mild cold.
I am traveling to Italy in September. To get a “super green pass” (to travel on public transportation, go to tourist spots) I either have to get Covid (again) or get a jab. I would take this one. No MRNA for me.
What’s the adjuvant?
Cuz I’m betting there is one...
The Nuvaxovid™ (NVX-CoV2373) Novavax vaccine is a recombinant spike (S) protein nanoparticle vaccine combined with the Matrix-M adjuvant. On December 20, 2021, the European Commission of the European Union (EU) granted conditional marketing authorization for the Nuvaxovid™ (NVX-CoV2373) Novavax vaccine, following recommendations from the European Medicines Agency (EMA)...
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On a cold day in Hades, Deep State.
Nice try, though.