VALNEVA VACCINE

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Valneva SE, a French vaccine company, announced results from its Phase 3 trial of its inactivated Covid-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001. They said that the vaccine was as effective as the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.

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VLA2001 is an inactivated, adjuvanted vaccine.
This means that it delivers the whole Sars-CoV-2 virus in an inactivated form.
The virus is killed using chemicals, heat, or radiation.
The dead virus cannot infect us but can still trigger an immune response.
Polio and flu vaccines are common examples of inactivated vaccines. India’s Covaxin is also an inactivated vaccine.