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it's not you are implying.. they use peptide..real vaccines use mRNA thus more effective than this one at say about 10% effectiveness..

Sorry for being brief as it would take a more in depth hour explanation of why the difference in effectiveness..

CDC had a recent article on the differences between this approach and the approach they and pharms chose namely mRNA



>real vaccines use mRNA thus more effective than this one at say about 10% effectiveness..

Not true. Novavax is just peptides and is 96% effective against the original Wuhan covid-19 strain.


Novavax is growing whole modified spike proteins and sticking a dozen of them on to a nanoparticle. The article mentions their peptide is only a small fraction of the size of the spike protein.




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