This vaccine has the particularity of not using messenger RNA technology, unlike those from Pfizer and Moderna.
The first injections in France of the anti-Covid vaccine from Novavax, the fifth to have been approved in the European Union, could take place “at the beginning of February“, Said Thursday, January 6 the Ministry of Health.
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This vaccine was approved on December 20 in the EU and its use in France is still subject to the opinion of the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS). This opinion is awaited “in the coming days“, According to the Ministry of Health.
According to the ministry, France must receive “3.2 million doses“Of this vaccine in the first trimester, and posed an option for”3.2 million additional dosesIn the second trimester. The first deliveries are expected “at the end of January“According to the ministry, but”signals indicate that there may be delays“. Subject to HAS approval, “we could start at the beginning of february“To inject this vaccine in France, the same source continued.
A vaccine says “subunit“
This vaccine has the particularity of not using messenger RNA technology, unlike those of Pfizer and Moderna (the only two hegemonic today in France after the gradual abandonment of those of AstraZeneca and Janssen). Sold under the name of Nuvaxovid, this vaccine manufactured by the American laboratory Novavax is a vaccine called “subunit»: It contains a component of the virus (and not the whole virus like the most classic vaccines), introduced into the body to trigger an immune response.
It is on this technique that the vaccines against pertussis, meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis B are based. It could remove the reluctance of people who refuse to be vaccinated because the technology of mRNA is quite new. “May (this vaccine) be a solid encouragement to the unvaccinated or those who have not been recalled!“, Thus hoped the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, when it was approved in the EU.
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