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.
And what’s the cost of getting out in sunlight, excercising, boosting your immune system, taking zinc, etc... just for starters? Not $1billion, x3 companies or more that are producing...x the untold amounts which I had heard has been funded by more than $5 billion AND counting in studies and grants. Sorry, not buying billions wasted on a flu virus that has a 99 percent survival rate. Never before in the history of any nation( or world) have economies been destroyed over the hysteria and fear being peddled
RE: The Novavax vaccine is said to have been developed without direct or indirect benefit of fetal cell lines. Not available in U.S. yet.
Well, if it ever is approved, Americans will get it first. It is a Maryland based company after all.
1) It doesn’t cause immunity
2) It doesn’t stop transmission
Gene therapy.
Makes sense.
Look up, for your redemption is very near.
They call call this game of microbes for a reason,
Every woman in existence loves the game of thrones series.(ex wife)
I binged watched that series three times in a row, knowing that it held the key to the actuation of man kinds downfall perpetuated by men.(hint, fallen angels)
Women are fantastic in the house leadership of homes, family and family businesses, but unequipped in leadership of any other endeavor as they our too vindictive. as they can never forget, and will always act in retaliation. (In this I give them GREAT HONOR.)
Please don't flame me to bad, as I speak the truth.
More directly from our area health care provider- up to 50 percent of those positive tested are false readings. The PCR tests are highly inaccurate , which is why everyone who tests positive is sent home and told to isolate for symptoms, of those having possible symptoms, they are rechecked, less than 10 percent of those experiencing get sick to require any medical attention ( loss of smell, metal mouth, toothaches, fever), of those 10 percent, less than 10 percent require hospitalization, less than one percent hospitalized die, and the average age of death is at 72-74 years old, nearly all have underlying conditions. “2 percent of those testing positive die” is pure bull hit. Maybe you live in New York where the figures, ages, have all been jacked with for so long. Fact is if you live in the US, a country of 330,000,000 carrying on unimpeded in your daily activities, the death rate is 0.028 PERCENT.
On the one hand, we have kooks that spout nonsense.
On the other hand, we have thousands of scientists who do independent research and come up with consistent results (which I suppose one could call "a consensus").
I know which side I'm on.
I'm also a scientist.
They won’t be vaccinating many of the adults that I know.
“I’m also a scientist.”
Words from a totalitarian mindset
We’re still a Constitutional republic. We’re not obligated to accept what you believe, nor what you don’t believe, and you don’t get to dictate health or immunity to others. Same goes for all other scientists (and everyone else).
Shove all the injections into yourself and your family that you want.
Words from a scientifically illiterate kook.
“Words from a scientifically illiterate kook.”
Nice try Jezebel.
North Dakota has 98000 reported cases, and 1431 deaths, for a death rate of around 1.6%.
IF you are correct and a large number of the 98,000 are false positives, it just means the death rate is higher. We actually know when people are dead, because we have to bury them. YOu don’t fake death.
And if the false positives are actually some other disease, and those people are the ones dying, that would be news to everybody.
Horribly written.
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