{"id":7214,"date":"2024-10-01T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T00:48:03","slug":"canadian-government-not-ordering-novavaxs-protein-based-covid-19-vaccine-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadian-government-not-ordering-novavaxs-protein-based-covid-19-vaccine-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian government not ordering Novavax\u2019s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is not providing Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine this respiratory virus season, citing low demand.<\/p>\n<p>It says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of its updated protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, which far exceeds the uptake by Canadians last year.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says a very small portion of the doses ordered in 2023 were used and that its decision reflects efforts to limit vaccine wastage.<\/p>\n<p>It is distributing two mRNA vaccines \u2014 made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna \u2014 that are approved for adults and children six months and older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is not providing Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine this respiratory virus season, citing low demand.<\/p>\n<p>It says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of its updated protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, which far exceeds the uptake by Canadians last year.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says a very small portion of the doses ordered in 2023 were used and that its decision reflects efforts to limit vaccine wastage.<\/p>\n<p>It is distributing two mRNA vaccines \u2014 made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna \u2014 that are approved for adults and children six months and older.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/canadian-government-not-ordering-novavaxs-protein-based-covid-19-vaccine-this-year\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian government not ordering Novavax\u2019s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,253,360,218,254,119,348,252,835,14,362,15],"class_list":["post-7214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-moderna","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nova-scotia","tag-novavax","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-pfizer","tag-pfizer-biontech","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}