Posted on 02/12/2021 9:21:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
At his news conference Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan said he hopes the coronavirus vaccine by Johnson & Johnson is approved by the end of February.
The single-dose vaccine would be a game changer and help speed up vaccination statewide, but it’s different than the mRNA vaccines the public has heard so much about from Pfizer and Moderna.
The J&J vaccine is already being manufactured at Emergent BioSolutions in East Baltimore in the hope that the FDA will grant them emergency use authorization in the next couple of weeks, but it’s very different from the vaccines already in circulation.
“I think this is a great time for us to have one more vaccine in our armamentarium,” Dr. Ruth Karron, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said.
Doctors are hopeful the J&J vaccine will get FDA approval soon and join the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the fight against the coronavirus. The vaccine is different as it doesn't use mRNA like the other two. Instead, it uses adenovirus vector technology.
“The genetic code for the SARS-coV-2 spike protein that's inserted into a virus that's very weakened, it goes into the body and it doesn't stick around for long. It replicates one time and that's enough to allow the spike protein to be expressed and our bodies to develop immunity to it,” Karron said.
The United States doesn't yet have an approved adenovirus vector vaccine, but Karron said the technology is not new, it’s been used at the University of Oxford and in an Ebola vaccine for years.
In clinical trials, the J&J vaccine was 72% effective against mild disease, 85% against severe disease, and importantly, no one was hospitalized or died 28 days after getting the vaccine.
By comparison, the mRNA vaccines proved 95% effective, but Karron said that can be deceiving.
“The J&J vaccine was tested at a time when we had a lot more SARS-coV-2 around than was around potentially when we tested those other vaccines, so in a way it could've been a much more rigorous challenge,” Karron said.
There are some benefits to this vaccine. It only requires only one shot and can be stored at refrigeration temperatures, so it’s much easier to administer. So, bottom line, does it matter which vaccine you get?
“I would say in general it really doesn't matter which one you get, I think it’s wonderful to have in our armamentarium,” Karron said.
Johnson & Johnson said they can deliver 100 million doses of their vaccine to the U.S. by the end of July. And because it’s a one-dose vaccine, that means 100 million people vaccinated.
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Not everyone should want a vaccine.If you’re superannuated and have specific health issues, it makes more sense to get vaccinated than if you were in your twenties and have no specific issues.
And as far as kids are concerned, very little benefit to vaccination. You have to be pretty sure it’s free of side effects in that case.
At this point I am not interested in getting any vaccine...however the J&J vaccine seems more attractive to me than the other two with less probability of causing unexpected side effects...
Just another unapproved experimental product which is not by medical definition or by current U.S. law even a vaccine....”
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All one needs to do - view the first part of this video which contains live footage of the vaccine adverse reactions.
https://odysee.com/@TruthHertz:2/onceweretheliving:9
Stage fog?
Good luck. I think the risk of not getting the vaccine is 1000 times greater then any risk of taking it, but it’s your life.
Amazing what we old coots can learn by staying alive and reading Free Republic.
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Not sure who to direct this to, but the latest CDC death figure ( chances of dying) for the US are :
0.0289 Percent
Average age of death: 74 years old.
Yes, Johnny, the chances of surviving the deathly Covid flu is at 99 percent.
Man does not live by statistics alone. I have had three friends who have died from Covid. None of them were elderly
“None of those vaccines alter your DNA. They do not have any of the genetic elements or protein accessories necessary for them to insert into your DNA.”
https://rumble.com/vd0vrj-interview-with-sherri-tenpenny-about-dangers-of-vaccines.html
The references in the Wikipedia article are pretty clear: Tenpenny is a fruitcake who promotes anti-science for profit.
“The references in the Wikipedia article are pretty clear: Tenpenny is a fruitcake who promotes anti-science for profit.”
You’re using Wikipedia as a reference? LOL!
As others have pointed out, you’re not an “ex” Dem. You’re a Dem.
As to profit, you’re the one working in the industry with at least a 20:1 return on investment.
Ahhh, consensus. The shield of those with a closed mind.
J&J actually promised 100 million doses by the end of June, and have said they are still on track for that.
And according to Bloomberg, we have given 48 million of the 2-dose vaccines, and are doing 1.6 million a day.
If you assume that won’t grow, that’s 24 million equivalent people vaccinated, and 0.8 million a day.
It’s february 12th. 138 days until June 30th.
So:
24 million already vaccinated.
100 million J&J vaccinations
110 million additional 2-dose vaccinations.
234 million total vaccinations in the United States.
Meanwhile, there are only 209 million adults in the united states, and we won’t be vaccinating children, although we might start vaccinating 16-17 year-olds. Below that age, the vaccine is riskier than the disease.
So, if J&J is approved, we should be DONE WITH VACCINATING our entire population by near the end of June.
And yet they keep talking about vaccines pushing into next year.
Also, they are testing to see if a second dose increases the effectiveness, so after June 30th, if they have determined it does, they could always circle back and vaccinate everybody a second time.
This is a more traditional vaccine, it is just produced by a somewhat new process. It’s not like the other two existing vaccines here in the united states.
The J&J vaccine is actually cheap. We are paying them $1 billion, for 100 million doses, or about $10 a dose.
You are misreading that. About 2% of those who have tested positive for COVID have died.
But it is true that your chance of dying if you are under 60 years of age is extremely small.
You don’t use Wikipedia as a reference. You use it to GET references, and look up the source material, to see what it actually says. Then you can search for other things Wikipedia might not have included.
The Novavax vaccine is said to have been developed without direct or indirect benefit of fetal cell lines. Not available in U.S. yet.
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