Americans may soon get a new COVID-19 vaccine option — a more traditional kind of shot known as a protein vaccine.
The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine will miss a target for giving doses to the U.N.-backed effort to deliver shots to poorer countries.
Erck said the Serum Institute recently passed an FDA inspection, clearing the way for the agency to finish evaluating the vaccine.Earlier in the pandemic, large studies in the U.S., Mexico and Britain found two doses of the Novavax vaccine were safe and about 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. When the Delta variant emerged last summer, Novavax reported a booster dose revved up virus-fighting antibodies that could tackle that strain.
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