Posted on 02/01/2021 6:06:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
* Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be 66% effective at preventing mild and moderate infections, and 85% effective at preventing severe disease, in trial results the company announced on Friday.
* It doesn't appear to be as effective as Moderna or Pfizer's mRNA vaccines, though there are big differences in how the shots were tested.
* It also has the benefits of being cheap and relatively easy to manufacture and distribute. It only requires one shot in the arm.
An experimental coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is 66% effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19, according to new trial data the company released on Friday.
At first glance, the vaccine doesn't appear to be as stellar as authorized vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, but it does have a few perks.
First and foremost: J&J's vaccine is just one shot in the arm, while both Pfizer and Moderna's are administered as 2 doses, given several weeks apart. Second, it can be refrigerated for months, making transportation and storage far less of a challenge. Third, it is cheaper and easier to produce.
"Our goal all along has been to create a simple, effective solution for the largest number of people possible, and to have maximum impact to help end the pandemic," Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Officer Alex Gorsky said in a statement when his company's results were released.
During a call Friday morning at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US' top infectious disease expert, stressed the importance of adding "yet another platform, another candidate into the mix in our global efforts against this extraordinary pandemic."
"This has really important domestic and global public health implications," Fauci said of the J&J vaccine, noting that "it is one shot,"
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The answer to all those questions is NO.
Of course. That's what the unvaccinated "placebo" (control) group is for. The two groups, vac'd and control, are each large and as identical as possible, including dispersal in a community in which community spread is ongoing at a strong rate. So, both groups should develop the same number of cases, but the degree to which the vac'd group does not develop as many cases as the control group determines the efficacy of the vaccine in the trial. The more cases in the control group, the greater the reliability of the results.
I imagine quite a bit of other tracking of subjects goes on as well.
In a different arena, my family is experiencing a containment effort right now. Several positive test results have popped up at the high school my daughter goes to -- students tested after an initial case appeared. This despite what looks to me like about as much prevention as can be practically applied, given PPE availability, in place. So, now a lot of tracking, contact tracing, and monitoring is going on. My wife got 3 e-mails on the subject just today, updating the situation, urging anyone with symptoms to quarantine and get tested, etc. Just how far this goes before the school reverts back to online learning I do not know. Hopefully the kids can stay in-classrooms, but I can't even hazard a guess as to the odds of that. :-(
Adenovirus based technology in development of vaccines for COVID.
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vectors-new-COVID-19/98/i19
After a few weeks your odds of serious illness will have dropped dramatically compared to being un-vaccinated.
Can you go out without a mask?
Once most of the moderate-to-high risk population has gained immunity, masks mandates are unwarranted (but I would hope better education could commence.) However, in whacko-lib areas, who knows.
Can you eat in a restaurant? Can you sing in church? Can you go to public school?
Same answer as for "mask mandates".
Or will you be in the same boat with us HCQ Zinc advocates?
Pending more data, I might take HCQ / Zinc at the 1st sign of symptoms even if vaccinated. Who wants even an average cold? (I consider myself @ moderate risk of serious COVID-19 if not vaccinated and exposed, @ moderate risk of a "moderate COVID-19 cold" if vaccinated and exposed.)
Some die the same day while other 2 weeks later. No need to wait too long for the democrats to blame something else.
Look at Cuomo in New York, lying about what he and other democrats did by killing 10’s of thousands of people in nursing homes deliberately.
Note: the J&J vaccine is made the old fashioned way with no mRNA modifications.
We’ve been lied to a lot, but to try to totally dismiss it is insane.
“...as zero COVID-19 cases were reported in patients who’d been vaccinated for 49 days or more.”
What? Are they getting vaccinated every day, every other day?
What if the gurus is real and killing people in front of us every day ? Look it up. Better yet done to an ICU and see for yourself. We wouldn’t even make you wear PPE for this imaginary illness
“..Johnson and Johnson was found guilty of knowing asbestos was in their baby powder. ..”
Plus Johnson and Johnson uses aborted fetal cell lines (unless they changed their methods).
It may have more use in third world countries where the refrigeration necessary for the moderna and pfizer vaccines does not exist
“How exactly is the vaccine supposed to help us?”
The point is ensuring your obedience and as a further method of control.
Thanks. All is good on the homefront!
“The vaccines are neither expiremtal nor investigational”
They are experimental and/or investigational. Not FDA approved. No long term testing.
Friend of mine has a father in law in hospital with cv19. The attending MD is refusing to do any treatment that the family is requesting for FIL. He’s dying. Another murder by conventional medicine. My friend is kicking herself because she did not offer the home treatment. Hopefully her attorney, a Christian/conservative, can end the MDs medical career with a nice fat lawsuit. But of course, the medical establishment will circle around and defend “standard of care”.
PS. She reports that when she first spoke to this physician, he was reading off the wrong person’s chart. A$$hole MD told her that the patient had too many comorbidities and basically deserved to die. What bedside manner! What ethics! One can imagine their horror...until they realized that the idiot was talking about someone else. But based on my experience with my own ex-inlaws, all MDs, par for the course.
“Sometimes I wonder if this vaccine was approved just to clean up the gene pool”
Or the ego and arrogance pool.
I guess I’d rather be turned into a Cardassian than a Kardashian. /s
It may be a moot point. My county’s Health Dept. website presently displays, for any date chosen for a COVID-19 appt: “No appointments are available this month”.
Never said it was not real, the question is what is it and how does it work.
My question is have the scientists made too many assumptions on this.
Also what has happened to the Flu, it did not go away, is it all now just classified as Covid?
Are the vaccines really safe and effective or are they a guess, much like the flu shots. Will you have to take them every year?
I think going back and restudying the Diamond Princess Data may yield more insight.
I do my own research, I just question a lot of what is being put out there by the so called experts at the NIH, CDC, and WHO.
It seems sad that you paint with a broad brush. There are bad members of every profession. That does not generalize to all members of the profession
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