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13/07/21
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Originally posted by kurrajong:
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Later in the year Australia will have purchased in excess of 40 million doses,of a real vaccine that is not an m-RNA related. It is called 'Novavax' The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has been found to have more than 90 per cent efficacy, paving the way for it to be available later this year in Australia.The successful results from the phase 3 clinical trial of more than 30,000 volunteers in the United States and Mexico puts Novavax on track to have its two-dose vaccine approved in the US and elsewhere in the third quarter of 2021.It backs up results of a UK study, released in January, that showed a similar efficacy in preventing infection from coronavirus. Novavax does not use mRNA.The mRNA vaccines, like Pfizer and Moderna, contain a piece of genetic code called RNA that the body creates an immune response for.Novavax uses a traditional vaccine approach of using purified pieces of the coronavirus to spur an immune response in the body.The body can then make antibodies to the spike proteins that cover the coronavirus. Maybe this what most questioning people here are waiting for, a real vaccine!
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All good and well for vaccines. What I think most people would like like to see is a sustained effort into early intervention of symptoms campaign. Surely its a no brainer? I suppose this will happen when they have no one else to vaccinate.