It looks like Novavax is now, per the CDC, an option as a "first booster" for people who have received other vaccines.
This is still insufficient and way more restrictive than in other countries, but it is at least headed in the right direction. Until now it was only approved in the US as a first vaccination series.
Novavax works in part by rendering a protein present in all Coronavirus strains unable to perform its function: inserting Covid DNA into host cells. As such, it should be effective for ALL FUTURE VARIANTS which is huge.
Novavax also does not use mRNA technology and it was hoped that it would get some uptake in people who are distrustful of that technology (or whose brains are full of conspiracy theories about it).
My family will be eligible for Novavax in mid February if it is by then approved as an option regardless of prior primary or booster series. It is definitely something we'd like to try.
It does not provide an invincibility shield and one should still mask and distance indoors, etc., but considering the sluggish turn around times for updated mRNA boosters so far, it has the potential to stay much more on top of the constantly mutating virus, which, contrary to hopes, is not becoming "milder".
This is still insufficient and way more restrictive than in other countries, but it is at least headed in the right direction. Until now it was only approved in the US as a first vaccination series.
Novavax works in part by rendering a protein present in all Coronavirus strains unable to perform its function: inserting Covid DNA into host cells. As such, it should be effective for ALL FUTURE VARIANTS which is huge.
Novavax also does not use mRNA technology and it was hoped that it would get some uptake in people who are distrustful of that technology (or whose brains are full of conspiracy theories about it).
My family will be eligible for Novavax in mid February if it is by then approved as an option regardless of prior primary or booster series. It is definitely something we'd like to try.
It does not provide an invincibility shield and one should still mask and distance indoors, etc., but considering the sluggish turn around times for updated mRNA boosters so far, it has the potential to stay much more on top of the constantly mutating virus, which, contrary to hopes, is not becoming "milder".
