The company plans to file for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
As vaccination rates stall nationwide, an additional vaccine like Novavax may seem unnecessary.
On average, hourly-wage workers often earn less overall income as compared with salaried workers.
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The Difference Between Novavax and mRNA Vaccines
But what’s behind this difference in side effects?
It may due to the vaccine mechanisms at work.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines and the Novavax protein-based subunit vaccine were developed using different technology.
Subunit Vaccines
Novavax was developed using protein-based, subunit technology.
They are also relatively cheap and easy to produce.
Subunit vaccines are reliable and familiarthey have been around for many years.
There is a huge experience behind this technology, Yildirim says.
Some people may find this appealing, and we may have more people getting vaccinated.
But that process is much easier when making mRNA vaccines.
Subunit vaccines are expected to trigger only antibody-mediated immune responses, Yildirim says.
mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have been shown to induce B cell and T cell responses.
This, however, doesn’t drastically change efficacy rates.
They all have 100% efficacy for severe COVID-19 disease.
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