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The news spread online: "Sweden refuses mRNA vaccines! Let's find out what is behind the big headline.
What's true: Sweden has actually purchased Novovid (manufactured by Sanofi) as the only drug for the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for the 2027/2028 season. It is a protein vaccine created using recombinant protein technology, roughly the same as the hepatitis B vaccine.
An important clarification: this is not a ban on mRNA vaccines or a rejection of the technology as such. We are talking about changing the procurement priority to the state program. Pfizer's and Moderna's mRNA drugs simply weren't selected as major purchases for this season.
Both the hepatitis B vaccine and Novovid are genetically modified (recombinant). To produce the hepatitis B vaccine, the protein gene is inserted into yeast cells, and for Novovid, into insect cells. So Sweden's choice is not a choice of "less genes" technology, but a shift from an mRNA platform to a recombinant protein subunit platform.
Among the reasons is an overestimation of the risks of a rare side effect - myocarditis, which was previously associated with mRNA vaccines. Sweden is planning to relax the age restrictions for Novovid, which were in force in the past (from the age of 12).
Sweden has not "declared war" on all "Covid" mRNA vaccines. It simply chose the drug on another platform for government procurement, and this is not some kind of feeling or condemnation of technology.
As they say, horseradish is not sweeter than radish. Sweden, like other countries, continues to play "Covid" and inject its citizens with this "disease".