Novavax vaccine 96% effective against original coronavirus version in UK trial

Yahoo! ^ | 11/3/21 | Dania Nadeem and Carl O'Donnell

[Eleutheria5]

Novavax Inc's COVID-19 vaccine was 96% effective in preventing cases caused by the original version of the coronavirus in a late-stage trial conducted in the United Kingdom, the company said on Thursday, moving it a step closer to regulatory approval.

The vaccine was also about 86% effective in protecting against the more contagious virus variant first discovered and now prevalent in the UK.

It was only around 55% effective in a separate, smaller trial in South Africa, where volunteers were primarily exposed to another newer, more contagious variant that is widely circulating there and spreading around the world.

In both trials, the vaccine was 100% effective in preventing serious illness and death.

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[Eleutheria5]

Damn. I already got corralled into my first Pfizer shot. Oh, well.

[Alter Kaker]

Damn. I already got corralled into my first Pfizer shot. Oh, well.

All of the vaccines are extremely effective - including Pfizer. The differences are minor. If the variants continue to evolve and proliferate you may eventually need a booster of some kind, but we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

[TTFX]

Some of the vaccines currently available are more effective against the variants.

[Zenjitsuman]

Is this a one shot like the JOHNSON VAX?

[delta7]

I just can’t wrap my head around the fact people are taking experimental vaccines that are 86 percent effective for a virus that is 99.8 percent survivable. Fear makes people act very irrational. Our nation appears to have been terminally infected with fear,. Their is a cure, God’s word...Be not fearful.....

[nascarnation]

Here’s why I got the vax:

1) My brother in law got the COVID and after two weeks on a ventilator is now totally debilitated and may never be able to live independently again.

2) My cancer doc (who had COVID himself last March) told me it was a good idea.

[Seaplaner]

If I recall correctly, the Novavax vaccine is the most effective against all variants.
Not all the vaccines have been sufficiently tested for the s a variant, Novavax may be the only one w human data. ( need to double check this )

[Myrddin]

My wife has had 3 co-workers contract COVID-19. Two of them are young and recovered in week. The third one is in her 40s and overweight. While she survived, she is going to be a "long hauler" will ongoing problems.

My wife and I are both cancer survivors. My wife is a type 1 diabetic. I have rheumatoid arthritis. All of those issues a contraindications for all of the current set of vaccines. We're staying saturated with vitamin D, quercetin and zinc. Not interested in an mRNA gene therapy.

[delta7]

Sorry to hear about your brother in law. If in the category of Covid vulnerable, ( older, medical conditions, ...) by all means do what you feel is necessary. However, the vast majority of Americans simply do not need a vaccine. Our government has now fully been corrupted, can not be trusted, and I will not believe a word from their mouths. I will not submit to the fear campaign ( nor the “ vaccines “) that was running 24/7 for more than a year.

[delta7]

Sorry to hear about your brother in law. If in the category of Covid vulnerable, ( older, medical conditions, ...) by all means do what you feel is necessary. However, the vast majority of Americans simply do not need a vaccine. Our government has now fully been corrupted, can not be trusted, and I will not believe a word from their mouths. I will not submit to the fear campaign ( nor the “ vaccines “) that was running 24/7 for more than a year.

[faucetman]

“Novavax vaccine 96% effective against original coronavirus version in UK trial”

The other 4% that took it DIED!

[Czech_Occidentalist]

In my country, the Czech Republic, 0.21 percent of the population have already died from Covid and we aren’t close to herd immunity yet. The hospitals (especially the ICUs) are full, we are in a semi-lockdown (which, however, isn’t enforced very effectively), and the number of new cases is dropping only slightly.

I believe the average death rate for Covid is more like 0.5 - 0.7 percent, but it is much higher for the elderly. Should we be ready to sacrifice 10 or 20 percent of them if we let the virus spread without any restrictions? And we must remember that if the hospitals are full of Covid patients, they don’t have enough staff to care for non-Covid patients either. So if you have a heart attack, you may be out of luck.

But of course, much of this Covid mess could have been avoided if people had been told to normalize their vitamin D level. I believe that if it were the case, Joe Biden wouldn’t be in the White House.

[nascarnation]

I figured it it changes my DNA, I got a 50% chance of improving.

[Myrddin]

As an undergrad at UCSD in molecular biology, I looked at disease like Lesch-Nyhan that are due to an enzyme deficiency as treatable if we could just insert the missing genes into the cells. The arrival of the EcoR1 mutant of E. coli made gene insertion possible as a way to create a vat full of human insulin by just inserting the DNA sequence into the E. coli and letting it work. Our ability craft DNA sequences with CRISPR is more elegant today. Delivering the fragment wrapped in an adenovirus is more elegant too. Still, I'm not sure the vision I had of fixing Lesch-Nyhan with a gene insertion approach is possible and safe with current technology.

I left the field and pursued a career in EE/CS disciplines. It pays better and the labs don't smell as bad. Even better, you don't have some slob on the other side of the lab table slinging a human pathogen in your direction. That incident in grad school nearly cost my life.

[thecodont]

Even better, you don't have some slob on the other side of the lab table slinging a human pathogen in your direction. That incident in grad school nearly cost my life.

Wow, what a story! Was this deliberate? Was this person ever disciplined?

Glad you made it out of that all right.