Dr. Fauci suddenly changes mRNA vaccines back to "relatively new" type of vaccine, now that he's selling Novavax's new old-school-style COVID vaccine

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[–]portace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Protein vaccines aren't new. It would also be safer than mRNA vaccines as you can't really control mRNA translation to proteins in the body. Your terminology is wrong, transcription is the process of making mRNA from DNA, translation is mRNA to proteins.

Also there are 15,400,000 hits for Novavax on Google starting from May and only 93,900 hits for Covaxin. I guess we know which one US government is promoting.

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Your terminology is wrong, transcription is the process of making mRNA from DNA, translation is mRNA to proteins.

Yes, I had that mixed up, thank you

Protein vaccines aren't new.

This is news to me, but I looked it up, and lo and behold, you are right, theyve been using these since the 80s for diseases like pertussis and hepatitis B.

It would also be safer than mRNA vaccines as you can't really control mRNA translation to proteins in the body

It would seem that way, but how does it compare to more traditional vaccines in terms of safety? I would also imagine that you would have the same issues as the mRNA vaccines where you are not having the same robustness of immune response as you would from a live virus or attenuated and adjuvanted virus. Seems like a terrible choice for a vaccine for a fast mutating virus, as a mismatched variant vaccine would offer less protection this way than if you were exposed to more of the virus