My 29 year old daughter will need to get vaccinated in order to attend grad school at the University of Oregon. We are thinking the least dangerous approach would be the Novavax vaccine or similar protein subunit vaccines ( non-mRNA, non DNA capsid type). What are your thoughts on their safety?
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Okay, not going to flip my shit on you like everyone else.
The Novavax one WOULD probably be the safest of all of the ones you listed. It's a subunit vaccine that contains the spike protein harvested from actual coronavirus and purified so it cannot become virulent. It doesn't trick your body into making spike proteins or anything like that. It is the actual antigen. So once you're body fights it off, that's it. It doesn't contain any genetic material from the virus, so you would still be getting partial antibodies.
Now the issue here is that the Novavax vaccine is not EUA here, and won't be available. It also will likely not be accepted by the university.
That being said, I'd have your daughter hold off and start her career first. Unless she's going to be jumping right into an executive position, the Masters degree will not do much to help her at this point anyway.
And at this point, she may not be able to get a job without the VAX any way? Hold the line until the dust settles!