Novavax Hopes COVID-19/Flu Vaccine Combo Can Help It Keep Up With mRNA Leaders

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Novavax recently slashed its revenues forecasts, but is hoping a two-in-one COVID-19 and flu combination could help it carve out space in the post-pandemic market.

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Novavax reached the market too late to make a big impression, but wants to stake a claim in the post-pandemic market with a combined covid and flu jab. • Source: Shutterstock

Novavax is to shortly unveil the first data from its combined COVID-19 and influenza vaccine, which it hopes could help establish its products alongside the household names of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

The company gained conditional marketing authorization in the EU for its protein nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373 (known there as Nuvaxovid),...

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