J&J COVID-19 vaccine shot loses antibody protection against omicron in study

Star Advertiser ^ | 14 Dec 2021

[conservative98]

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine produced virtually no antibody protection against the omicron coronavirus variant in a laboratory experiment, underlining the new strain’s ability to get around one pillar of the body’s defenses.

The vaccine appears to provide some defense against omicron, perhaps via other means such as stimulation of immune cells, according to Penny Moore, a South African virologist. The findings are consistent with other studies that show a partial loss of potency against COVID-19 for a number of vaccines, with J&J’s antibody protection looking particularly weak in the lab test.

Moore, a professor at Johannesburg’s University of The Witwatersrand, said that laboratory experiments were conducted on blood plasma samples from people who had had two doses of the Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE vaccine and those or the J&J single-shot inoculation.

A measure of antibody levels, called geometric mean titers, fell from 1,419 against the original coronavirus strain to 80 against omicron among people who received Pfizer shots. The same measure fell from 303 against the original strain to undetectable levels against omicron in those who had received J&J’s shot, Moore said in an online presentation on Tuesday.

“Omicron does indeed exhibit substantial immune escape from antibodies,” she said. “The situation, I think, is even more alarming for the J&J vaccine — there was no detectable neutralization in our assay.”

[conservative98]

Paging Mark Levin, Rand Paul and Donald Trump.

[lee martell]

J & J Vaxx; Caught with it’s microbial pants down!

[beethovenfan]

Too bad, still not taking any toxic “boosters”.

[No Left Turn]

We let it slide on the first go around. Now all you of J&J vaxers, come get your MRNA shot.

[rdcbn1]

Most all of the mRNA vaccines are going to rapidly lose effectiveness because they use only confer partial immunity since only the circa 2019 spike protein is used as an antigen. The spike proteins are the component that mutates fastest so the spike protein rapidly becomes and obsolete antigen for variants like the Delta and the Omicron. The more extensive and evolved the spike mutations of the covid variants , the less effective the obsolete 2019 spike proteins are as an antigen. The signature feature of the Omicron variant is extensive and significant mutations in the spike proteins

[Tacrolimus1mg]

No surprise. Three months after the shot, I got COVID. Of course this was going to happen.

[Justa]

I already have pericarditis from the J&J, not risking myocarditis with Pfizer.

I’m never playing soccer, that’s for sure.

[Pollard]

That’s because congress is invested in Pfizer/Moderna and actually shares the patent on Moderna.

[dkGba]

JJ is only one that is not mRNA

[mewzilla]

Here’s her bio...

https://gvn.org/sars-cov-2-response-efforts/gvn-forefront-of-virology-covid-19-webinar-series-featuring-dr-penny-moore/

I’m thinking she may have some YUGE conflicts of interest...

[dangus]

Oh, it’s worse: Pfizer and Astrazeneca vaccines cause LOWER your immune reaction to omicron.