This is superb news. A 4th working vaccine and UK has ordered 60m doses. https://twitter.com/BBCFergusWalsh/status/1354899361365422085
J+J reporting next week. That will hopefully give us 5. Hugely important in speeding up the global rollout which us far too slow at the moment.
Has to be the said that the UK vaccine taskforce has played an absolutely blinder in terms of procurement.
Worth noting that Novavax, like Moderna and Pfizer seems have some protectiveness against the SA variant but at a lower level than the older variants (including the UK one). They, like the other manufacturers are going to make an adapted vaccine to boost protection.
This is the Novavax press release with more data. Note 60% effective in SA in non HIV-compromised patients. Also note no serious cases in the vaccine group in either UK or SA (though only 1 in placebo group). https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-demonstrates-893-efficacy-uk-phase-3