Novavax vaccine trial part 2

[Frazzled2207]

A continuation of the thread for those of us taking part in the Vaccine trial.
Never had a thread continue to part 2 before so quite excited.

Old thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4048789-novavax-vaccine-trial-anyone-else

What????? People have been getting swag? They’re so tight at Cheadle! I’m in for the secret Santa, and I won’t be wrapping up my ruler because I gave it to DD for her home schooling!

It looks as though there’s been a slight delay to the approval - Dr Baxter said this morning that the MHRA is doing site visits and the approval is now expected next month.

I’m now 3 hours post jab and everything looks and feels totally normal. I’d love just one little symptom (a very little one) to let me know what’s going on. I don’t want to wait until autumn to find out when I had it!

Ooh thanks, just taken one, fingers crossed!

That's interesting re: new studies of mixed vaccine protocols. DH would be eligible for that, but he is fairly needle phobic so I can't see him volunteering...

@QueenOfThorns

What????? People have been getting swag? They’re so tight at Cheadle! I’m in for the secret Santa, and I won’t be wrapping up my ruler because I gave it to DD for her home schooling!

It looks as though there’s been a slight delay to the approval - Dr Baxter said this morning that the MHRA is doing site visits and the approval is now expected next month.

I’m now 3 hours post jab and everything looks and feels totally normal. I’d love just one little symptom (a very little one) to let me know what’s going on. I don’t want to wait until autumn to find out when I had it!

oh that's annoying that approval is delayed. I have been expecting it any day now. given the controversy around AZ and also now J&J this country really needs this to be approved asap.

I wonder if they’re making the approval absolutely watertight given what’s happened with AZ? Not saying they were slack, but maybe with new info they’re looking more closely at particular aspects now?
Great tip about the antihistamine- I’ll remember that if I get a headache later. Had jab at 9:30 this morning and so far only very slight stiffness in my arm (which is more than I had first time round).

@JosephineDeBeauharnais
Good point that could be true.
But once you scale up 15,000 volunteers to 15 million vaccinations I'm sure someone somewhere might have a nasty side effect.

Pleased you are not suffering significantly!

Thank you - so far, so good.
Perhaps an element of closer scrutiny is numbers in the trial now that so many people have dropped out?

@JosephineDeBeauharnais

Thank you - so far, so good. Perhaps an element of closer scrutiny is numbers in the trial now that so many people have dropped out?

I’m not sure that this matters because they had sufficient people in for long enough to achieve statistical significance in their primary endpoint, which should be good enough for the regulatory authorities. The paper from this study is just about ready to be submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine, so will hopefully be available to read online in a few weeks.

Frazzled is right about the numbers scaling up - the nasty blood clots with AZ are seen in something like 1 in 250,000 people. As Novavax has been given to far fewer people (I’m not sure how many are in the US trial, but I think it’s a similar size to ours) the chances of seeing one are very low at the moment. (There haven’t been any )

I want a special keyring so I'll feel an affiliation to any Novavaxxers I may see in the future.
Almost like a secret 7 badge but for us " vaccine champions"

I found this on the Novavax group, and then someone had to make a Novavax one.

That's brilliant. A US friend told me J&J has been withdrawn at the moment due to blood clots so there's apparently an update is due on their card!

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What Novavax group are the pictures on? They're great.

Did anyone else get the email today asking them to take part in a new vaccine study called Medicago.

It's a facebook group called Novavax covid vaccine trial support and information.

ooh I did not know about that group. Have just requested to join.

Funnily enough when I was trying to join the next one that came up was the Official Priti Patel's Support Group! Bloody nora. Really???? Maybe it's a parody. I'm not joining to find out.

She needs all the support she can get!

Ughhh! It’s probably to support anyone who comes into contact with her!

We have to vote up here at the start of May. Only reason she's probably changing rules the week before.

Thank you for the link to the FB Group.

Have a look where our vaccine will be made in the UK

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They've made me feel weird... that's far too space age for moths and tree bark!

I was talking about it with the ex-mother in law. She works there so has had the full tour of the factory. She said each vat can make 2 million doses (which is not a lot considering their size)

@JPLeeds

I was talking about it with the ex-mother in law. She works there so has had the full tour of the factory. She said each vat can make 2 million doses (which is not a lot considering their size)

ooh. Has she confirmed that they are actually making the stuff?

Yeah they definitely are making it and expanding the number of employees there too (for various projects) Said there had been some shortages but extra got flown over from Texas.

I ended up in the FB group where it was about the ppl that invested shares. I didn't find it that interesting so I left. However some dates coming up soon. Might have been the 22nd ( could be wrong). This was the big date when they had to decide what to do with their shares. And it obviously relates to approval going through or not. Ppl were currently making an ok profit on the money they invested.

I found the other group after that. I thought ppl in the US were being paid for the study, but I've seen no mention of it. I just wondered with a lot of ppl talking of quiting, and if they don't complete they don't get paid.