“Novavax confident Covid vaccine will receive FDA authorization in June.”
– From a May 13 story on CNBC.
The following comes from a Feb. 22 posting in Christianity Today:
….Although more than a year behind competitors such as Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, which were both cleared for emergency use in late 2020, Novavax’s two-dose vaccine has already been approved for use in other countries such as the UK, and the company hopes to aid global inoculation efforts.
But Novavax may have another unusual selling point: the potential to woo vaccine skeptics who reject other widely available vaccines because of distant links to abortion they say violate their morals and their faith.
“No human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue, including HEK293 cells, are used in the development, manufacture or production of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373,” a Novavax spokesperson told Religion News Service via email.
About 64 percent of the US population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as of February 18, with 28 percent having received an additional booster shot, according to The New York Times.
Public health experts say the unvaccinated population is harboring vaccine hesitancy or outright anti-vaccine sentiment, some of it driven by faith. According to a December 2021 survey by Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core, 10 percent of Americans say they believe getting a Covid-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Among their objections is that in developing or testing their vaccines, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson all used cell lines in various ways that trace their origins to aborted fetuses from the 1970s and 1980s. The most commonly used in medical laboratories are known as HEK293 and PER.C6.
Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, has defied Catholic Church hierarchy by taking a hardline stance against Covid-19 vaccines because of the controversial cell lines.
“I will not take an abortion tainted vaccine, I wish other bishops had joined me months ago,” Strickland tweeted in April 2021. But he linked from the tweet to an article from the website Catholic Culture, which promoted Novavax’s shot in a separate December 2020 post as “apparently developed and produced without any involvement of fetal tissues.”
Novavax CEO Stanley Erck has expressed hope his vaccine could win over vaccine skeptics in general. “In the US, the primary market I think in 2022 is going to be to supply a vaccine, our normal two-dose regimen, to a lot of people who have been hesitant to get other vaccines,” Erck told CNN in November.
Some prominent anti-vaccine activists, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have been cautious but notably less hostile toward Novavax because it uses protein-based technology, a more traditional approach than the mRNA-based vaccines created by Moderna and Pfizer. The animal cells employed in its development, Novavax notes, come from moths.
The company claims the shot was up to 90 percent effective in preventing the original strain of Covid-19 and announced in December that it also generates an immune response against the omicron variant….
Good news. If I’m compelled by my hospital to get an ineffective shot or wear a mask at work *forever* I’ll take one that isn’t brought to market using fetal cells.
Nobody needs a Covid vaccine now. Nobody ever did.
Tell that to the 12 people I directly cared for in the hospital on ventilators from covid pneumonia that we put into body bags in a 3 week period. The oldest was I think 65. the rest from their 50’s to 20’s. All unvaccinated.
All life is a risk. I at 62 have more of a chance dying in my 2 hour daily commute than the wuflu.
I’ll live free from fear. No jabs for me.
Yes, and how many co-morbidities did each one have?
And we’re they treated with “run death is near”? Otherwise known as Remdesivir!
I’ve known people now who have passed from this life to the next, prior to that decrying COVID as a hoax, then suddenly about to perish from it. No vaccines taken, sometimes out of faith-based beliefs, others from being just plain stubborn. I would challenge all those who say that COVID is fake to continue not taking the vaccine, then spend a day in a hospital ward with COVID patients, and roll the dice to see if you get it. You might not, you might still. If you’re lucky and get it, you’ll be asymptomanic and require only quaretine, or worse, staying at the very hospital where you were exposed. If one chooses to not get the vaccine, that is your choice, but here you take the risk of exposing others if you become a non-symptomatic carrier. Where is the pro-life stance if you’re willing to cause others to suffer and possibly die? So much for one’s exposing how wrong it is for pro-choice yet will decry themselves persecuted if their choice is thwarted by someone else’s bad science.
You do know getting the jabs doesn’t prevent getting wuflu? And getting it repeatedly?
If not. Now you do.
I read elsewhere that Novavax did use aborted cell lines to test their COVID vaccine.
Can you tell us where you read that?
No COVID-19 shots for me neither , God bless everyone who doesn’t want the shot
I love how so many play God and are disobedient to the Holy Father. What’s next to start their own Roman Catholic Church? SMH
Pope not speaking ex cathedra. Not obligated to obey. He was expressing his opinion. You know like when he said it’s better to be an atheist than bad Christian.
Many people died in hospitals because they were denied effective treatments and instead were given the poisonous remdesivir or forced on ventilators. So very sad and horrible ?
I know a family of five who have not had any COVID shots. They just got over COVID with the help of Frontline doctors with some of them taking hydroxychloroquine and some ivermectin, along with needed vitamins, zinc and lots of rest at home. I saw them after, and they are just fine.
I have never had a flu shot, although it is not unethical to get one (not abortion tainted) but got the two ethical pneumonia vaccines. I do usually mask when around strangers, except outside, take vitamins and zinc regularly So far have not gotten COVID, the flu or even a cold.
Thanks be to God!
There is one other thing I do — have my throat blessed on St. Blaise Day or do a novena asking his intercession against throat problems each year.
Your overlords say:
The immune system God gave you
is clearly insufficient. You MUST
take the concoctions we come up
with on a regular basis. Unlike God, WE’RE
ALWAYS looking out for you!