Posted on 10/20/2021 7:35:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Novavax on Wednesday issued a statement reinforcing its position that its vaccine will be ready for global use this year, following a POLITICO report on Tuesday that it had fundamental manufacturing issues that would delay its ability to contribute to the global fight against Covid-19.
The company said it plans to file “within the next couple weeks” in Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and to file for emergency use in the U.S. by the end of 2021.
Novavax did not address the assertions of two people with direct knowledge of the company’s processes that it has struggled to eliminate impurities in its vaccine production or that its tests for those vaccine batches had been inconsistent.
Following POLITICO’s report Tuesday, Novavax’s stock was down 24 percent at market’s opening on Wednesday.
People familiar with the discussions told POLITICO that U.S. officials are skeptical that Novavax can resolve key production issues in the months ahead, presenting the latest hurdle in the global scramble to send more doses to low- and middle-income countries.
Novavax is expected to play a critical role in that effort. The company and its production partners pledged more than 1.3 billion doses to the international vaccine consortium The COVAX Facility, with hundreds of millions of shots expected this year.
"We are confident that our vaccine will soon play a significant role in the global COVID-19 vaccine arsenal, differentiated by its potential to help address two major issues slowing the world’s ability to end the pandemic: global distribution challenges and vaccine hesitancy," President and CEO said Stanley Erck said in a statement.
Its manufacturing challenges come as COVAX struggles to hit its goals. The vaccine equity group recently downgraded its expectation of 2 billion vaccines this year to 1.425 billion.
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If unnamed “US officials” are skeptical, it’s probably good.
“Unnamed “US officials” are going to allow this to be approved by the FDA. Ok.
If our govt and bureaucrats don’t want this vaccine to be an option….it’s possibly the best option and alternative to the RNA and DNA experiments
Tip for Novavax—don’t waste your time ramping up production until you have a full scale marketing plan in place that includes massive bribes to public officials.
What do the “US officials” not owned by Pfizer say?
Is this an ethical vaccine?
FYI, Novavax uses fetal cell lines for testing.
Well, there goes that option.
Abortion juice used in confirmation testing.
NOT AN ETHICAL CHOICE !!
Yes, I was disappointed as well.
bummer. i was going to get the novavax...i was led to believe they’d get EUA this quarter.
This is the only vaccine i would consider taking, and it would be a while before i took it.
Doctors i know, most of them politically liberal but- understand the CCP virus is being politicized, understand ivermectin works, knew full well from the get go this was created in a chinese lab- have all told me novavax is the safest vaccine and if they had the opportunity they would have taken it.
That said one doctor told me, “It won’t be available in America until next year as Pfizer and moderna still have millions of doses of vaccine left to sell.”
Ping for Later, I need that info!
“If unnamed “US officials” are skeptical, it’s probably good.”
That is what I am thinking. I have not seen any bad reports on the Novavax trials also.
Novavax does not use mRNA (Pfizer/Monderna) or the viral vector that Johnson uses. Also there are no poyethylene glycol in Novavax.
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