European regulators recommend Novavax’s updated Covid vaccine

The Eu­ro­pean Med­i­cines Agency’s hu­man med­i­cines com­mit­tee (CHMP) to­day rec­om­mend­ed No­vavax’s adapt­ed Nu­vax­ovid boost­er vac­cine for pre­vent­ing the Omi­cron XBB.1.5 sub­vari­ant of the coro­n­avirus in adults and ado­les­cents 12 years of age and old­er.

The Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion will like­ly so­lid­i­fy the CHMP rec­om­men­da­tion in the com­ing days. The pos­i­tive opin­ion was based on non-clin­i­cal da­ta show­ing that No­vavax’s up­dat­ed vac­cine in­duced func­tion­al im­mune re­spons­es against the XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16 and XBB.2.3 vari­ants.

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