>>13652273every vaccine has it's advantages and it's disadvantages.
novavax is not a "regular" vaccine it's an protein subunit vaccine that tries to mimic empty virus shell vaccine, which are notoriously difficult to produce.
positive:
- it's not producing spike proteins in your body like mrna but grows them in a lab and then introduce them to you
- because of the mimicry it shouldn't need adjuvants like other protein subunit vaccines, however for some reason it still uses adjuvant (saponin), probably because of muh 95% media larp.
- doesn't need very low temperatures (nice for 3rld world)
negative:
- it probably wouldn't be able to create significant cell based immunity without an adjuvant
- we're not sure how exactly saponin creates cell based immunity
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