CHC/SEK now has Novavax protein-based COVID-19 vaccine available 

Neighborhood Well being Middle of Southeast Kansas (CHC/SEK) clinics has acquired the lately approved Novavax vaccine as the newest instrument within the struggle in opposition to COVID-19. To date, the Baxter Springs, Coffeyville, Columbus, Fort Scott, Iola, Parsons, Pittsburg, and Pittsburg South clinics have acquired doses. Vaccinations are out there on a walk-in foundation, or by appointment.  There isn’t any out-of-pocket price to obtain the vaccine at CHC/SEK. 

The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is the newest approved and really helpful vaccine to forestall extreme sickness, hospitalization and demise attributable to the virus. Novavax is manufactured utilizing a well-known sort of protein-based vaccine expertise that has been used for greater than 30 years in pictures that assist stop ailments like shingles, hepatitis B, the flu and different diseases.  

The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine on July 13 for the prevention of COVID-19 attributable to extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in people 12 years of age and older who have not acquired a main sequence of a COVID-19 vaccine beforehand. 

Entry to a number of forms of secure and efficient COVID-19 vaccines approved by the FDA and really helpful by the CDC provides folks extra choices and suppleness to decide on their vaccine.   

The Novavax vaccine is given in a two-dose main sequence, with a second dose administered between three-to-eight weeks after the primary.  

Neither a booster nor a 3rd dose is permitted right now. 

“We now have one other instrument to handle COVID-19,” stated Linda Bean, D.O., FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer at CHC/SEK. “Novavax supplies another choice for a secure, efficient and free vaccine. With the BA.5 variant persevering with to unfold, now could be the most effective time to get a vaccine in case you haven’t already.”