CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

I don't get the publicly stated desire for Novavax, or the seemingly unfounded belief it will be somehow safer with less side-effects than the current alternatives.

For that matter I don't get the underlying belief that "treatments or cures" are also safer with less side-effects, certainly that is not the case with snake-oil like Ivermectin whether it works on not!

On Novavax, here in Australia the Novavax trials showed most have only mild to moderate side effects, with a small percentage experiencing some serious acute side effects, But the total participants in both trials was only 1500 people.

Given Pfizer or AZ serious acute side-effects occur at the rate of 1 per 100000 people, the confidence in Novavax being better is greatly overstated, because if only 1 out of 1500 people got a serious acute side-effect during the Novavax trial, that scales to 66 per 100000! :o

The biggest formally reported trial of Novavax so far has been about 40000 people, still far too small to judge an equivalence.

I'll be pleasantly gobsmacked if Novavax is significantly better, it would probably have to be the safest vaccine in history to improve on the others!

Novavax has been adopted by Indonesia and that will be a very decent trial sample.....my daughters MIL who has severe medical issues was advised no AZ or Pfizer/Moderna by her specialists but both said Novavax was ok for her if and when it arrives so it does have some support in the medical community.
As I said before they are also leading the way in a combo vaccine that is being trialled here in Aus on the quiet and in a few other countries for the 50-70 year old age groups.
Supporters of AZ seem a tad concerned about Novavax for some strange reason and maybe see it as taking decent market share if they can get their production issues sorted.