Does the Type of COVID-19 Vaccine Matter?

Yes, the latest indicator of this was released last week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Novavax was far superior against a difficult-to-treat South African variant. It is a protein therapeutic, with no genetic code!

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AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine – Vaccine efficacy against the B.1.351 South African variant was 21.9%. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2102214

Novavax vaccine -  Among a subgroup of HIV-negative participants, the vaccine was 60.1% efficacy against the B.1.351 South African variant.:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2103055