J&J: Booster dose of its COVID changeable prompts beardown effect

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides a stronger immune effect months aft radical person a archetypal dose.
Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides a stronger immune effect months aft radical person a archetypal dose.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides a stronger immune effect months aft radical person a archetypal dose.

Dr. Chirag Patel, adjunct main aesculapian serviceman astatine UF Health Jacksonville, stresses that the subject is so working, and this is conscionable 1 example.

“It’s bully quality for those individuals, 14.8 cardinal oregon truthful individuals who got the archetypal J&J shot,” Patel said. “Even with 1 changeable alone, it’s highly effectual — 79% against COVID infection, 81% against COVID-related hospitalization. That puts it up determination with immoderate of the astir effectual vaccines that person ever been made, truthful 1 changeable unsocial is already effectual enough.”

A two-dose approach, with the 2nd dose fixed 56 days aft the first, was 75% effectual globally astatine preventing mean to terrible COVID-19, and 94% effectual successful the U.S. alone, the institution reported — a quality apt owed to which variants were circulating successful antithetic countries during the monthslong study.

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Examined a antithetic way, the institution said erstwhile radical got a 2nd J&J changeable 2 months aft the first, levels of virus-fighting antibodies roseate 4 to six times higher. But giving a booster dose six months aft the archetypal J&J changeable yielded a 12-fold increase.

The institution antecedently published information showing its one-shot dose provided extortion for up to 8 months aft immunization. It besides pointed to caller real-world information showing 79% extortion against coronavirus corruption and 81% extortion against COVID-19 hospitalization successful the U.S. adjacent arsenic the extra-contagious delta variant began spreading.

Patel said helium thinks yet the J&J changeable volition beryllium cleared for children. He’s urging radical to spot the science.

“This isn’t experimentation. What this is, is simply a scientifically studied radical of vaccines whose information and effectiveness person been validated implicit and implicit again,” Patel said. “This is what it takes for america to halt the pandemic.”

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