NC prepares to rollout the newly authorized Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
North Carolina has added the Novavax vaccine to its arsenal of vaccines to help combat COVID-19.
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The CDC endorses Novavax, a more traditional COVID vaccine, for adults
Adults who haven't gotten any COVID-19 shots should consider the new option, the agency said Tuesday. The spike protein vaccine is more typical than the mRNA types being broadly used against COVID.
Advisers to the FDA back Novavax COVID vaccine
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted to recommend that it authorize Novavax's two-dose vaccine against COVID-19.
Novavax's COVID vaccine nears the finish line
The Novavax vaccine appears to be about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration scientists say in an analysis of the company's data.
A different kind of COVID vaccine is about ready to roll
Protein subunit vaccines work by injecting people with a tiny portion of a virus. In the case of the COVID-19 vaccine, that tiny portion is the spike protein that the coronavirus uses to enter cells.
A New Type Of COVID-19 Vaccine Could Debut Soon
Instead of putting genetic instructions into people whose cells then make a viral protein, the vaccines from Novavax, Medicago and Sanofi carry a spike protein payload.
Novavax Posts Coronavirus Vaccine Contract That Government Didn't Disclose
The $1.6 billion Novavax contract is one of several Operation Warp Speed agreements issued through a third party, Advanced Technology International, and that hadn't been released.