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Novavax’s Covid-19 Vaccine Approved by EU: Move paves way in Europe for first shot using an established vaccine technology
ABC News ^ | 12/21/2021 | Mike Corder, Associated Press

Posted on 12/21/2021 5:59:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The European Union’s drugs regulator gave the green light Monday to a fifth COVID-19 vaccine for use in the 27-nation bloc, granting conditional marketing authorization to the two-dose vaccine made by U.S. biotech company Novavax.

The European Medicines Agency decision to recommend granting conditional marketing authorization for the vaccine for people aged 18 and over, which must be confirmed by the EU’s executive commission, comes as many European nations are battling surges in infections and amid concerns about the spread of the new omicron variant.

Novavax says it currently is testing how its shots will hold up against the omicron variant, and like other manufacturers has begun formulating an updated version to better match that variant in case in case it’s eventually needed.

The Novavax shot joins those from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca in the EU’s vaccine armory. The EU has ordered up to 100 million doses of the Novavax vaccine with an option for 100 million more.

Last week, the World Health Organization gave emergency approval to the Novavax vaccine, paving the way for its inclusion in the U.N.-backed program to get such vaccines to poorer countries

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; eu; novavax; vaccine
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1 posted on 12/21/2021 5:59:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

FROM THE ARTICLE:

The EMA said that it’s human medicines committee concluded by consensus “that the data on the vaccine were robust and met the EU criteria for efficacy, safety and quality.”

Novavax’s Covid vaccine is made very differently than the most widely used shots.

It is a protein vaccine, made with an older technology that’s been used for years to produce other kinds of vaccines. The Maryland-based Novavax uses genetic engineering to grow harmless copies of the coronavirus spike protein in insect cells. Scientists extract and purify the protein and then mix in an immune-boosting chemical.

Novavax President and CEO Stanley C. Erck said if the European Commission confirms the EMA decision the company would “deliver the first protein-based vaccine to the E.U. during a critical time when we believe having choice among vaccines will lead to increased immunization.”


2 posted on 12/21/2021 6:02:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

From the article: “It is a protein vaccine, made with an older technology that’s been used for years to produce other kinds of vaccines. The Maryland-based Novavax uses genetic engineering to grow harmless copies of the coronavirus spike protein in insect cells. Scientists extract and purify the protein and then mix in an immune-boosting chemical.”

Wonder what the excuse for not taking this vaccine will be?
Genetic engineering? Immune-boosting chemical? No doubt this forum will be flooded with posts from the anti-vaxxer websites about how dangerous it is.


3 posted on 12/21/2021 6:07:03 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

RE: Wonder what the excuse for not taking this vaccine will be?

It is a personal choice whether one wants to take the vaccine or not. I personally am waiting for this vaccine to be granted EUA in the US.

But I sure as hell don’t want government forcing any vaccine on anyone even if I myself will be vaccinated with Novavax.


4 posted on 12/21/2021 6:10:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: DugwayDuke

Anybody who refuses to submit to any feral government decree should be executed, right Comrade?


5 posted on 12/21/2021 6:13:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: SeekAndFind

The government of PRC (Politically Repressive Canada, aka Kanadahar) has a contract with Novavax to build a production facility in PRC to produce its vaccines. All smoke and mirrors. True-dolt has bought hundreds of millions of Pfizer and Moderna gene therapy shots and will continue pimping these shots until he will finally try to ‘eliminate’ all the ‘pure bloods’. The Novavax facility will open after the ‘final solution to the unvaxxed problem’ in PRC.

Other than being a ‘trust fund’ champaign socialist, he is XiJinBiden’s ‘spiritual child’.


6 posted on 12/21/2021 6:14:19 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


7 posted on 12/21/2021 6:15:26 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not taking any damn shot.
Other than the ethical part of shooting aborted stem cells I don’t see the sense in injecting ANYTHING in my body?
Especially when my chances of dying are extremely low even if I get the dumb ass virus.
So,have yourself a merry little Christmas now.


8 posted on 12/21/2021 6:18:38 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: DugwayDuke

Read up on the sad story of Thalidomide and how a medicine was rushed to market without proper testing


9 posted on 12/21/2021 6:18:38 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: DugwayDuke
Wonder what the excuse for not taking this vaccine will be?

Grown in insect cells. Not Kosher?

Allah the sudden JINOs get religion!

10 posted on 12/21/2021 6:19:59 AM PST by null and void (Unvaccinated=control group, vaccinated=controlLED group...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Must watch video on Fauci corruption:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-fauci-era-officially-over-watters-world-coronavirus-wuhan-emails


11 posted on 12/21/2021 6:20:20 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: SeekAndFind

Still no.


12 posted on 12/21/2021 6:22:21 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: DugwayDuke

One of the objection will not be that it is an unproven gene therapy approach.

Thank goodness for that…m I rite?


13 posted on 12/21/2021 6:22:32 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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Good news. Though I’m not going to take it since I’m in a very low risk group.


14 posted on 12/21/2021 6:23:02 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: DugwayDuke

For the 145th time....there is NO vaccine. Are you on drugs?


15 posted on 12/21/2021 6:23:28 AM PST by maineman ( UN-Vaxxed Patriot living behind enemy lines on the coast of Maine.)
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To: DugwayDuke

This is one of the vaccines I have waited for.
I don’t trust the mRNA technology. I know 5 people in my immediate orbit that experienced adverse reactions to them.


16 posted on 12/21/2021 6:29:11 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: DugwayDuke

Dugway your snark in you post is contradiction by your post...if all the current vaccine withe the new teak were as safe and effective

why go to the trouble and costs of creating now one from the old tech?


17 posted on 12/21/2021 6:30:12 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: DugwayDuke
In your humble opinion, oh great grate seer, is refusing the shot on religious grounds acceptable?

Novavax unfortunately, used HEK293 cells for testing. Besides, neither XiJinBiden nor True-dolt in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada aka Kanadahar) allow the use of this shot in either country.

18 posted on 12/21/2021 6:33:05 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: kalee

For later.


19 posted on 12/21/2021 6:34:17 AM PST by kalee
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To: SeekAndFind; DugwayDuke
It is a personal choice whether one wants to take the vaccine or not.

True. The problem is when people produce misinformation intended to frighten and dissuade others from taking the vaccine.

You know, like lots of the stuff that gets posted here.

20 posted on 12/21/2021 6:36:19 AM PST by semimojo
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