“Novavax should be approved within a month.”
They had long targeted April for authorization, but I have seen recent reports that they are now looking at May.
Reportedly, they have strong manufacturing capability lined up.
“Back in July/August, I’d have told you that the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine was the most promising”
FedGov made the same assessment last year - contracted for 400 million doses, the most of any candidate.
Reportedly, their US suppliers are already sitting on about 30 million finished doses, awaiting authorization, with strong production capacity standing by.
I’d give the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine maybe 1 chance in 10 of ever seeing the light of day in the US at this point.
Further, the Biden administration is in quite a pickle. If you sit on the doses you’ve bought, nobody gets to use them. If you send them to third world countries who will actually accept them, you get accused of racist dumping of inferior products on poor nations.