{"id":40541,"date":"2022-06-07T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-to-be-considered-by-fda-panel-as-4th-in-us\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:44:19","slug":"novavax-covid-19-vaccine-to-be-considered-by-fda-panel-as-4th-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-to-be-considered-by-fda-panel-as-4th-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to be considered by FDA panel as 4th in US"},"content":{"rendered":"
A federal vaccine advisory committee meets Tuesday to decide whether adult Americans could soon get a fourth COVID-19 vaccine option. <\/p>\n
Development of the vaccine, from Novavax, a Gaithersburg, Maryland-based company, was started at the same time as others in 2020, but the company struggled to produce its shot in large quantities.<\/p>\n
A more traditional vaccine than some of the others, it might encourage some vaccine holdouts to get the shots, experts said. <\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of reasons that are not scientifically based for not having taken the vaccine (yet),” said Vivian Riefberg, a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. “This may convinces some people because it’s traditional technology.”<\/p>\n
The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech shots, which have been given to three-quarters of the American population, are based on mRNA technology, which teaches the body to make the spike protein found on the surface of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Once the immune system recognizes the spike protein, it will attack the viral cells.<\/p>\n\n
The Novavax vaccine provides the spike protein directly, mass-produced in insect cells instead of the body, and delivered with an adjuvant that boosts its effectiveness. Such protein-based vaccines have been used to prevent hepatitis B, pertussis, pneumonia and meningococcal disease, among other diseases. <\/p>\n
(The J&J vaccine, which regulators have said should be a secondary choice after the mRNA shots, uses a harmless virus to deliver the same spike protein.)<\/p>\n