Few in Canada have managed to get the shot, but its believers are waiting, unvaccinated, anyhow. Why the Novavax COVID vaccine has developed such a fandom — and why it matters.
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They say the went without getting vaccinated for more than a year — not because they were against vaccines, but because they wanted only one. The fear, some experts say, is that anti-vaccine advocates will use them to undermine trust in existing shots. Politicians in Canada and in other countries are hoping that putting another item on the menu could push vaccination rates even higher.
In the United States, Dr. Peter McCullough, a doctor who has made several false claims about the dangers of mRNA has pushed Novavax as an alternative. Online message boards devoted to the Novavax shot feature genuine questions from curious people, but also posts about the unproven dangers of mRNA. Of course, some people on the Novavax bandwagon are there because they’ve read up on their options and just feel more comfortable with this one. In some ways, it’s a dialed-up version of last year’s #ModernaMafia or the #PfizerGang.
While Moderna and Pfizer dominated the early vaccine conversation, newcomers such as Novavax — and Canadian-made Medicago — are jumping in right in time for boosters, doses for children and shipments to other countries. That’s why the company is glad to see the passion from Novavax fans, and hopes this will translate into people getting vaccinated. Taylor stresses that the company has not tried to “find” them, but the fandom is something that has developed organically.
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