A federal advisory committee will vote on whether regulators should authorize a COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax. From The New York Times.
A federal advisory committee Tuesday will vote on whether regulators should authorize a COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax, an early beneficiary of the government’s Operation Warp Speed program.
In clinical trials, the Novavax vaccine was found to have an efficacy of 90.4% at preventing mild, moderate or severe infection with older variants of the virus. None of the volunteers who got the vaccine experienced moderate or severe infection, translating to an efficacy of 100%. “These events raise the concern for a causal association with this vaccine,” the FDA documents stated.
The Novavax vaccine has been authorized in dozens of countries, including India, South Africa and Britain, and has also received clearance from the European Union and World Health Organization.But the vaccine is falling far short of initial hopes, both in terms of the number of vaccines distributed around the world and the number of people who are receiving them. In February 2021, Novavax pledged 1.1 billion doses to COVAX, the U.N. program supplying shots to developing countries.
As part of its initial support for Novavax’s research, the United States agreed to buy 110 million doses of the vaccine if it won authorization. But two years later, with the country already flush with effective mRNA vaccines, the government has little need for more.
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