22.12.21, daraus folgendes;
This is how Novavax, the new authorized vaccine against covid-19, is manufactured in Galicia
…Novavax antigen has been frozen for months and ready to be distributed throughout Europe. When La Voz de Galicia visited the factory ten months ago, each week they were producing 1,000 liters of antigen.
…- He said they are already making the Novavax antigen.
- Yes, due to the importance of the pandemic, all the companies involved in the process of developing covid vaccines considered the possibility of manufacturing the vaccine at the risk of not passing the final stages. But if you pass them, as soon as they are cleared by the European Medicines Agency, they can be ready to use. In the case of Novavax, we already started batch manufacturing at the end of last year.
- That is, if everything goes well, the vaccine reaches people in record time. If it goes wrong, everything manufactured has to go to the trash.
- Completely. That is the concept of urgency that this pandemic has. We are talking about it being caused by a coronavirus, which is one ten thousandth of a millimeter, and something so small has been able to paralyze all health systems, produce so many deaths, paralyze the world economy and lead us to not be masters of our destiny. Therefore, it is normal that in a situation like this, any effort has this magnitude.
- How have you had to prepare to be able to carry out the manufacture of the Novavax vaccine?
- We have some of the largest veterinary vaccine production factories in Europe. Furthermore, ten years ago we entered human vaccine manufacturing with our tuberculosis project on a smaller scale. So we had the knowledge, the technology, and the facilities. We asked the Spanish Medicines Agency for an audit to see if the factories that we already had for veterinary products could be suitable for the manufacture of human vaccines. Some aspects had to be added and we made the effort, both in facilities and in qualified personnel, to be able to go ahead with projects to develop human vaccines against COVID and, in the international context, accept offers such as Novavax's.
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