Novavax COVID-19 vaccine gets in second round of human trials

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In a previous phase 1 security trial of the Novavax vaccine, healthy volunteers offered 2 dosages of the vaccine showed just mild side impacts, such as headache, tiredness, and tenderness or pain at the injection site, according to a report published Aug. 6 to the preprint server medRxiv According to this initial data, which has actually not been peer-reviewed, all of the stage 1 individuals also generated neutralizing antibodies, which can avoid the virus from going into cells, after getting a second dosage of the vaccine.

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The vaccine, called NVX-CoV2373, includes proteins obtained from the coronavirus spike protein, a structure that juts off the virus’s surface area and plugs into cells to cause infection, according to the statement.

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