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New Novavax Covid Vaccine Could Appeal to Pro-Life Christian Skeptics: This vaccine is the first without links to fetal-derived cell lines.
Christianity Today ^ | 02/18/2022 | Jack Jenkins

Posted on 02/21/2022 9:07:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Could a much-delayed COVID-19 shot finally win over religious vaccine skeptics?

That’s the question swirling around a vaccine made by Novavax, a Maryland biotech firm that submitted its request to the US Food and Drug Administration last month for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 shot, also known as NVX-CoV2373.

Although more than a year behind competitors such as Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, which were both cleared for emergency use in late 2020, Novavax’s two-dose vaccine has already been approved for use in other countries such as the UK, and the company hopes to aid global inoculation efforts.

But Novavax may have another unusual selling point: the potential to woo vaccine skeptics who reject other widely available vaccines because of distant links to abortion they say violate their morals and their faith.

“No human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue, including HEK293 cells, are used in the development, manufacture or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373,” a Novavax spokesperson told Religion News Service via email.

About 64 percent of the US population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of February 18, with 28 percent having received an additional booster shot, according to The New York Times.

Public health experts say the unvaccinated population is harboring vaccine hesitancy or outright anti-vaccine sentiment, some of it driven by faith. According to a December 2021 survey by Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core, 10 percent of Americans say they believe getting a COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs.

Among their objections is that in developing or testing their vaccines, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson all used cell lines in various ways that trace their origins to aborted fetuses from the 1970s and 1980s. The most commonly used in medical laboratories are known as HEK293 and PER.C6.

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TOPICS: General Discusssion; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: covid; fetalcelllines; novavax; vaccine; vaccines
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To: SeekAndFind
“No human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue, including HEK293 cells, are used in the development, manufacture or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373,” a Novavax spokesperson told Religion News Service via email.

I'm not sure if that includes testing or not. It is a very weasel-worded statement because it doesn't specifically include testing.

41 posted on 02/22/2022 4:45:31 AM PST by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: MortMan

YES. They used the fetal cell line in confirmation testing of the vaccine. Why I have no idea and it flys in the face of this entire advertising campaign of totally ethical vaccine.

The word salad continues.


42 posted on 02/22/2022 5:02:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
But Novavax may have another unusual selling point: the potential to woo vaccine skeptics who reject other widely available vaccines because of distant links to abortion they say violate their morals and their faith.

Not, by far, the only reason to be skeptical of the vax-en.

43 posted on 02/22/2022 5:16:50 AM PST by Lee N. Field ("He will swallow up death forever" Isaiah 25)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not a chance with this Christian.

Get back to me after 10 years of testing.


44 posted on 02/22/2022 5:48:40 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Paladin2

The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.


45 posted on 02/22/2022 6:03:35 AM PST by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks, no thanks. Don’t need.


46 posted on 02/22/2022 6:07:25 AM PST by JoanSmith
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To: zipper

zipper wrote: “No long-term studies, no deal. Even without mRNA.”

Over 900,000 have died in the US from COVID in less than two years. How long do you want to wait for long term studies? How many additional deaths are you willing to sacrifice while waiting on those long term studies?


47 posted on 02/22/2022 6:12:46 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

How many additional deaths are you willing to sacrifice while waiting on those long term studies?
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I’d settle on one,

,,, yours, Allen.

We sacrifice no one.

You want the life ‘saving’ shot ?,

we aren’t stopping you

or any other “ thousands”,

so your pathetic attempt to pin sacrificial deaths on us is , as usual for you, dishonest and foul.

Why you so hot to make everyone vaxxed ?

Spit.


48 posted on 02/22/2022 6:29:51 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind
Don't care if they claim it is not murdered baby parts, will give you perfect hair and poop gold nuggets.

Not taking it.

You have broken my trust.

49 posted on 02/22/2022 6:32:07 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: cuz1961

cuz1961 wrote: “Why you so hot to make everyone vaxxed ?”

I really don’t care if you’re vaccinated.
I do care about those pushing disinformation in an attempt to convince others not to get vaccinated.
I do care about those who are trying to stop all vaccinations while we wait....


50 posted on 02/22/2022 7:01:33 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

I do care about those pushing disinformation in an attempt to convince others not to get vaccinated.

,, and we care about your ilk pushing dishonesty on all fronts to FORCE others to get a vax that has proven to cause death and harm.

/

I do care about those who are trying to stop all vaccinations while we wait....

/ NO ONE is trying to stop all vaccinations

You truly are a foul and disingenuous straw man peddler.

Spit.


51 posted on 02/22/2022 7:10:17 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

in an attempt to convince others not to get vaccinated.
/\

No one is doing that foulallen , we are rejecting mandatory vac and passports.


52 posted on 02/22/2022 7:13:50 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve resisted so far. At this point I’m determined to not accept any shot. Besides, I’m naturally immune.


53 posted on 02/22/2022 7:20:49 AM PST by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: cuz1961

cuz1961 wrote: “,, and we care about your ilk pushing dishonesty on all fronts to FORCE others to get a vax that has proven to cause death and harm.”

Where have I called for ‘forced’ vaccinations?

cuz1961 wrote: “NO ONE is trying to stop all vaccinations”

That call has been made multiple times.


54 posted on 02/22/2022 8:33:23 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone here on FR posted it yesterday...a.m. Had African countries among others...don’t think it had N Korea which is bogus. I didn’t save it. A search found some articles, but not the one I saw...I bet if you seek it, you can find it.😊


55 posted on 02/22/2022 8:41:00 AM PST by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Well I’m glad you have publicly stated

you oppose vac mandates.

Thank you.

/-)


56 posted on 02/22/2022 8:56:45 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Sarcazmo

The CDC and weaponized medical establishment has lied so much that there’s no reason they wouldn’t test the vax on live birth babies and still report it was not tested on fetal cell ‘lines’.


57 posted on 02/22/2022 9:25:27 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: MNGal

Thanks.


58 posted on 02/22/2022 9:38:43 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: cuz1961

cuz1961 wrote: “Well I’m glad you have publicly stated
you oppose vac mandates. Thank you.”

That shouldn’t be ‘breaking news’. I’ve publicly opposed vaccine and mask mandates for months. Because I support the vaccines does not mean I support the mandates. What I oppose is the unfounded criticism of the vaccines.


59 posted on 02/22/2022 10:00:15 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke; cuz1961

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What I oppose is the unfounded criticism of the vaccines.

The news of needed ‘boosters’ is not unfounded criticism.
It’s proof the product you peddle falls short, .

Pfascists don’t care if these warped jabs fall short because it isn’t really about medicine anymore.

It’s about control through your approved shotty,crappy, medicine


60 posted on 02/22/2022 1:07:16 PM PST by delchiante
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