Their vaccine has done a bit better then the others in producing antibodies to virus….
There are 3 other companies in America in phase 3 trials and 11 around the world….
The vaccine maker Novavax said Thursday that it would begin the final stages of testing its coronavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom and that another large trial was scheduled to begin next month in the United States.
It is the fifth late-stage trial from a company supported by Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to speed a coronavirus vaccine to market, and one of 11 worldwide to reach this pivotal stage. Novavax, a Maryland company that has never brought a vaccine to market, reached a $1.6 billion deal with the federal government in July to develop and manufacture its experimental vaccine, which has shown robust results in early clinical trials.
The new study, known as a Phase 3 trial, is expected to enroll up to 10,000 people in the United Kingdom. Half of the volunteers will receive two doses of the experimental vaccine, 21 days apart, and the others will receive a placebo.
Although Novavax is months behind the front-runners in the vaccine race, independent experts are excited about its vaccine because its early studies delivered particularly promising results. Monkeys that were vaccinated got strong protection against the coronavirus. And in early safety trials, published early this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, volunteers produced strikingly high levels of antibodies against the virus….
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By this time next year there could be several FDA approved Covid-19 vaccine’s available to the public….
Who knows how many people will actually take the shots?
I believe that if the scientific and medical community,people like Fauci,endorse a vaccine(s) as being safe with minimum side effects and providing 70% or so protection ,that the vast majority of peoooe will get vaccinated.
@Jack, by the June of Next year I think about 20% of Americans will have been vaccinated, I think there is about 35% that won’t get vaccinated and the rest 45% percent will slowly get vaccinated…I am from New York, and I am surprised as to how many people I know that don’t really care for this vaccine because of the speed in which it is taking, and they don’t trust the government to get it done right (people on both sides of the political spectrum as well)…
But let’s say 70% of Americans get the vaccine and that protects roughly 70% percent of the 70% that get the vaccine, without really doing the math that’s only about 55% of Americans protected from COVID….that ain’t great…
In New York State you MUST be vaccinated for certain things to attend school’s….
Covid-19 is NOT on the list….
Yet…..