US biotech company Novavax has announced that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine elicited a robust immune response, producing more antibodies than are present in recovered patients.
US biotech company Novavax on Tuesday announced its experimental COVID-19 vaccine elicited a robust immune response, producing more antibodies than are present in recovered patients, and with generally tolerable side-effects in its early-stage trial.
It reported in a press release that the phase one stage of its placebo-controlled trial involved 131 healthy adults aged 18-59 and two dose groups of five and 25 micrograms. After the first dose, all subjects who got the vaccine developed antibodies that block SARS-CoV-2's"spike protein," which it uses to latch on to human cells.
After a second dose given 28 days later, all participants had the more powerful neutralizing antibodies.
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