Pharmaceutical company Novavax is beginning a trial of a combined COVID-19 and flu vaccine that would enable people to get one shot every year to protect them from both viruses.
About 1500 participants will be recruited for the trial of a combined COVID-19 and flu vaccine.The earliest Novavax expects to get combined doses in arms would be the spring of 2025.
If this phase 2 trial of COVID Influenza Combination is a success, a phase 3 trial will be needed before Novavax can seek approval to get the combined vaccine on the national immunisation program, which would make it free for all eligible Australians. Professor Tony Cunningham, infectious diseases physician, virologist and director of the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Sydney, said if the vaccine was safe, effective and approved by regulators, being able to immunise people from both viruses with one shot would boost vaccine coverage.
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