So You Think Novavax Is Going To Save The Day?
Think Again.
A few days ago, I was at a Christmas Party; I was determined not to bring up the C-word. Others couldn’t resist, and the discussion inevitably led to everything Covid. It was surprising to see how many are sceptical of the vaccines and are opposed to the government vaccine mandates.
A couple of people who weren’t vaccinated mentioned the new kid on the block, Novavax, which is set to enter the Australian market. Somewhere they got the idea that because Novavax was not an mRNA vaccine, like Pfizer, that it would be superior.
Novavax is created by infecting insects with a virus programmed with genes that produce the spike protein of the Coronavirus. These then infect moth cells which then produce the spike protein. These are extracted, which is what is injected into your body; billions of spike proteins. The effect is the same as Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, getting the body’s immune system to react to the spike protein.
The Novavax people are claiming 95% effectiveness in preventing Covid. Where have we heard that before?
As I mentioned in an earlier newsletter, Pfizer’s claim of 95% effectiveness was fraudulent. Instead of looking at Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR), they looked at Relative Risk Reduction (RRR). The ARR was actually 0.7%, meaning you would have to inject 142 people to prevent one Covid case.
This article, Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials from a medical journal, summarizes the sleight of hand achieved with reporting bias.
Novavax clinical trial results are below. Out of 7019 people who received the placebo, 96 came down with Covid, while for the 7020 people vaccinated, 10 came down with Covid. Sounds good, right? If you compare the 96 to 10, you get about 96% efficiency. That is the RRR.
Now, if you hate math, you can skip the next paragraph.
To get an accurate picture of effectiveness, we need to compare the 96 to the 7019 and the 10 to the 7020. This gives us ratios of .0136 and .0014. The difference is .0122, or a 1.2% reduction when subtracting these two figures.
What this means is if you vaccinate 83 people, you will prevent one case of Covid; hardly something to write home about.
The other consideration is adverse events. In the chart below, adverse events in the vaccinated exceeded the control group in every category.
As described in the New England Journal of Medicine, there were multiple reactions to the vaccine. There was one in particular, as stated, “One related serious adverse event (myocarditis) was reported in a vaccine recipient, which occurred 3 days after the second dose and was considered to be a potentially immune-mediated condition;.”
One other thing that makes me very suspicious is the major donor to Novavax––none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I say no more.
I agree with your major conclusions.
However, if I were pushed up against a wall to the point of succumbing to a mandate (eg for my job) I would choose Novovax over any of the other 3 available in Australia. Because while they all zap you with CV spike protein, at least with NV it is a single measured dose, which should be easier to mitigate. With the mRNA shots (Moderna & Pfizer) the spike protein seems to be produced in an uncontrolled way, with no stop point. The mRNA has been engineered to last much longer than the normal few hours that natural mRNA lasts in your body, and meanwhile, it just keeps on producing spike protein.
AZ seems to be somewhere in the middle - still hijacking your own cell machinery to produce spike protein, but not quite as aggressively.
Notice that I am not comparing these re effectiveness - because I am more & more of the (science based) belief that a vax against a coronavirus is never going to work. We knew this going into 2020 - it didn't stop any of the hype, but eventually it will become obvious even to the confirmed vax believers.
Let's just hope it happens before too many people die.