Americans get another choice of COVID booster shots.
as a first booster dose. Until now, it had only been approved as a two-dose primary series., adjuvanted, the first protein-based option, as a booster, Novavax President and CEO Stanley Erck said in a news release. According to CDC data, almost 50 percent of adults who received their primary series have yet to receive their first booster dose.
The Novavax vaccine uses a more traditional approach to fighting the virus, teaching the immune system to recognize modified fragments of the coronavirus spike protein.
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