The FDA just approved the Novavax vaccine for COVID under EUA. It won’t be available until the CDC outside committee approves it. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to meet July 19.
I have nothing personally against Novavax. It might turn out to be the safest COVID vaccine to date. But “safest” and “safe” are two different animals: one is relative and the other is absolute.
Here are my top 5 reasons to say “No” to Novavax:
COVID is a disease which is easily treatable. Why would you take a risk on a new product with unknown risks when you don’t need to?
As Andrew Wakefield and others point out, we’ve never had a vaccine where the benefits > outweigh the risk. While this might be the first one, you’ll want to wait for an independent study that proves it.
You can’t trust the FDA, CDC, or drug companies. They have to come clean and admit their issues before we can ever trust them again.
You run the risk of original antigenic sin (OAS) and/or antibody dependent enhancement (ADE). In short, you run the risk of making yourself worse off.
We just don’t know. We don’t know anything about their adjuvant — Matrix M. We don’t know anything about safety. We don’t know if they can manufacture it properly (they are now on their third contract manufacturer).
For further reading, see these 3 excellent articles, all from Substack authors:
If the spike proteins get into the brain from the Novavax vaccine, does that make your brain sharper?
Here are some urgent facts about the supposedly "safer" Novavax (seem worth devoting a post to):
Source- Clinical trial NEJM publication (Supplementary Appendix, Table S14): https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2116185/suppl_file/nejmoa2116185_appendix.pdf - see page 48
The vaccine group had almost DOUBLE the incidence rate of neoplasms as the placebo group (0.95 vaccine vs. 0.51 placebo).
Ditto for immune system disorders (1.05 vaccine vs. 0.51 placebo).
And reproductive system and breast disorders were also worrisomely elevated (2.00 vaccine vs. 1.25 placebo). That one is notably concerning because the table shows the increase is concentrated in the younger age group. Alarmingly, the FDA briefing document ( https://www.fda.gov/media/158912/download - Page 67) shows 25 miscarriages compared to 41 live births.
Multiple reasons why this information is critically important to publicize as much possible (a poll said about 30% of unvaccinated believe Novavax is safe):
1. For the common good (if people lucky enough to be unvaccinated all this time want to get the tumorigenic, immunotoxic, fetotoxic Novavax then so be it, but they deserve to know this stuff).
2. If the population of unvaccinated shrinks considerably (by about the ~30% cited), there will be much less audience, political clout, and political will to tackle the issue of vaccine dangers, while this will be a breeding ground for new mandates, no matter how ridiculous it would be.