Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consultants today voted unanimously to recommend the NVAX vaccine.. About Novavax COVID-19 for people aged 18 and over, reports Voice of America.

This vaccine has been approved by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). CDC director Rochelle Walensky still has to sign recommendations before a vaccine becomes available in the US.

The government has secured 3.2 million doses of Novavax but is waiting for the company to complete quality testing before they are approved for use.. Novovax hopes to complete testing in the next few weeks.

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine for primary vaccination.. This is the fourth COVID vaccine approved for use in adults in the US..

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Novavax hopes its protein-based vaccine will gain wider acceptance among skeptics as it uses older technology than mRNA-based vaccines. Protein-based vaccines have been used for decades to fight diseases such as hepatitis B and influenza..

Over 77% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated with vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, or Johnson \u0026 Johnson.

With the onset of summer, another wave of coronavirus is expected, caused by new variants of the Omicron strain. Coronavirus infections are on the rise in Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands, according to Our World in Data..

Experts justify this growth with new variants of the virus - BA. 4 and BA. 5 that are more contagious than the previous ones. In addition, they refer to the measures canceled by the authorities to protect against the pandemic..