这是 2021/11/11 的新闻报道,Novavax 已向WHO和加拿大等国提交了申请,(2021/11/11开始的)未来6-8周将得到核准。有比这更新的消息吗?
Novavax未來6-8周將取的全球五大區核准! 2022年初啟動全球配銷
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PHASE 3 EMERGENCY USE IN EUROPE, INDONESIA, PHILIPPINES
VACCINE NAME: NVX-CoV2373 (also known as Covovax or Nuvaxovid)
EFFICACY:
90.4%
DOSE: 2 doses, 3 weeks apart
TYPE: Muscle injection
STORAGE: Stable in refrigerator
With massive support from the U.S. government, Maryland-based
Novavax developed a highly effective protein-based vaccine. But manufacturing woes drastically slowed its rollout. It wasn’t until November 2021 that the company began gaining emergency authorizations, including from the
World Health Organization,
India,
South Africa and the European Union. On Dec. 31, 2021, Novavax
submitted a data package to the Food and Drug Administration, in advance of an application for emergency authorization in January 2022.
VACCINE DEVELOPMENTBefore the pandemic, Novavax developed a number of vaccines for diseases by attaching viral proteins to microscopic particles. In 2019, the company’s flu vaccine finished Phase 3 clinical trials, but it had yet to deliver a single vaccine to market.
In May 2020, the company launched trials for a Covid-19 vaccine, which they named NVX-CoV2373. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations invested $384 million to support the research. In July, the U.S. government awarded Novavax another
$1.75 billion to support the vaccine’s clinical trials and manufacturing.
TRIAL RESULTSAfter getting
promising results from
preliminary studies in monkeys and humans, Novavax launched a Phase 2
trial on 2,900 people in South Africa in August 2020, and the next month it
launched a Phase 3
trial with up to 15,000 volunteers in the United Kingdom.
The Phase 3 trial in the United States was delayed because of problems with manufacturing the doses required for the study. It finally
launched on Dec. 28, 2020.
On March 11, Novavax
reported that its United Kingdom trial determined an efficacy rate of
96 percent against the original coronavirus, and an efficacy of 86 percent against the Alpha variant. In a study on nearly 30,000 volunteers in the United States in Mexico,
the vaccine’s efficacy was 90.4 percent.
AUTHORIZATIONDespite the strong performance of NVX-CoV2373 in clinical trials, Novavax’s path to authorization has been long and difficult. The company has been
dogged by delays in manufacturing and has struggled to develop reliable tests of its vaccines’ quality. In August 2021, the United States government
said that it would not fund further production of Novavax’s vaccine until the company resolved concerns of regulators about its work.
Politico reported on Oct. 19 that Novavax was still struggling to manufacture enough doses to meet its targets, causing the company’s stock to
drop 24 percent.
DISTRIBUTIONNovavax reached an
agreement in September 2020 with the Serum Institute of India, a major vaccine manufacturer, that could enable it to produce as many as 2 billion doses a year. It now has an agreement with other countries, including
the United Kingdom,
Canada,
Australia and
South Korea. On Feb. 18, Novavax announced it would supply
1.1 billion doses to COVAX, a consortium that seeks to distribute vaccines to all countries across the world. In a Nov. 4 earnings call, Novavax said that it was anticipating producing
over 2 billion doses in 2022.
VARIANTSBecause Novavax was slow to reach clinical trials, it was one of the first companies to measure the efficacy of its vaccines against variants that emerged starting in early 2021. In a small clinical trial in South Africa, Novavax found that the Beta variant
drastically reduced the efficacy of the vaccine to less than 50 percent. That efficacy may have been unusually low because some of the volunteers in the study had H.I.V. and thus had weakened immune systems. Novavax estimated that the efficacy of the vaccine against Beta was 60 percent in people without H.I.V. On Dec. 22, Novavax
announced that its vaccine also lost some of its potency against the Omicron variant, but a booster shot restored much of its protection.
BOOSTERSOn Dec. 21, 2021, Novavax
announced that it was extending its Phase 3 clinical trial into a booster trial. They will give volunteers a third shot of NVX-CoV2373 to observe its safety and efficacy. In a separate trial, British researchers tested Novavax’s vaccine in a “mix-and-match” trial, in which volunteers switched from one vaccine to another for a booster. The researchers
found that NVX-CoV2373 raised coronavirus antibodies to high levels.
For more details, see
How the Novavax Vaccine Works.
EMERGENCY USE IN:
India NEW,
Indonesia,
Philippines. Conditional authorization in the
European Union NEW. Emergency use validation from the
World Health Organization NEW.
Updated Jan. 12