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Good News - FDA gives the thumbs up for J&J's Covid vaccine- and it's easier to store/ship
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:31 am
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:31 am
It's not as effective as the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, but it also is much easier to ship and only requires one dose.
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Agency says the single-dose vaccine is 66.1% effective in preventing moderate to severe virus disease and that no recipients of it died
Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that a Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 single-dose vaccine was 66.1% effective in preventing moderate to severe virus disease, and that it had a “favorable safety profile.”
In the company's clinical study of about 44,000 patients in the U.S., South Africa and other countries, the agency said, there were seven Covid-19 deaths among patients getting a placebo, and none among those who got the vaccine. The finding appears to bolster J&J’s earlier statements that the vaccine was effective in preventing severe disease.
The federal agency’s analysis represents a key step toward a possible FDA authorization of the vaccine as early as this weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A committee of outside medical specialists convenes Friday to evaluate the analyses by both the FDA and the company, as the panel did for the first two Covid-19 vaccines to be cleared for use. The advisory committee is expected to recommend the FDA authorize the J&J vaccine, and the agency is expected to make its decision soon after.
The regulatory green light would bolster vaccination efforts just as health authorities pick up the pace to get people back to schools, offices and other establishments ahead of new strains that threaten to evade medicines.
Health authorities expect the initial supply of the J&J vaccine will help ease, though not eliminate, the frustration felt by people unable to sign up for shots because there aren’t enough doses available. J&J has said it would deliver about 20 million doses for U.S. use by the end of March, which may be enough to boost the countrywide capacity for completed vaccinations by about 20%.
The two other Covid-19 vaccines authorized in the U.S. come from Moderna Inc. and from a partnership between Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech SE. The companies have projected delivering enough of their two-dose vaccines by the end of March to immunize 100 million people. Each of those vaccines require two shots to confer their full benefit. The J&J vaccine involves only one shot, a factor that also may ease the logistics of delivering doses.
The late-stage study evaluating J&J’s vaccine looked at how well it protected against moderate and severe Covid-19 among 43,000-plus volunteers in several countries. In the U.S. alone, the vaccine was 72% effective, J&J said. The shot wasn’t as effective in South Africa alone, where a new and more transmissible variant of the virus has emerged. There, the vaccine was 57% effective.
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All those numbers exceed the FDA’s originally-set hurdle of 50% efficacy, but fall short of the 94.1% and 95% marks set by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, respectively.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:32 am to dewster
So basically the store brand version?
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:32 am to dewster
Another free market capitalist American company pumping out a vaccine in a time in need?
What?
What?
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:33 am to dewster
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66.1% effective
Ummm...No, thanks
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:33 am to dewster
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J&J's Covid vaccine
j and J exterrrrrminatttingggggggg
First thing I thought of
This post was edited on 2/24/21 at 9:34 am
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:34 am to jlovel7
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Another free market capitalist American company pumping out a vaccine in a time in need?
Everyone that believes that capitalism isn't the best economic and political system should avoid taking the vaccine.
This post was edited on 2/24/21 at 9:35 am
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:35 am to AUriptide
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Ummm...No, thanks
That's much more effective than the average flu shot.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:35 am to AUriptide
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66.1% effective
Ummm...No, thanks
With a 66% effective rate, you went form a 98.5% chance of survival to a 99% chance.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:35 am to Simon Gruber
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So basically the store brand version?
"We have vaccine at home" -- Mom
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:37 am to dewster
Well considering the Moderna vaccine is 60% effective after the first dose this one is basically redundant. But good for freeing up extra doses
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:40 am to goofball
Turns out, along with security for the entire Western Hemisphere, the US is subsidizing medical research for the entire world. Next time some dipshit tries to tell you we have a horrible healthcare system point to the scoreboard. Three vaccines, the rest of the field has one.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:41 am to Tbonepatron
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Well considering the Moderna vaccine is 60% effective after the first dose this one is basically redundant. But good for freeing up extra doses
If it means we can get back to normal faster, I'll take the second dose with bells on.
But we also need to stop pulling Faucci's string.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:41 am to Team Vote
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Next time some dipshit tries to tell you we have a horrible healthcare system point to the scoreboard. Three vaccines, the rest of the field has one.
I think AstraZeneca has one out now. British company. I think they partnered with Oxford.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:43 am to goofball
Thats the one I’m referring to, if you want to give partial credit to Germany for Pfizer I suppose that’s fair.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:49 am to Simon Gruber
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So basically the store brand version?
It's ideal for younger people who may not be at risk. And this can be sent to countries where a refrigerated or frozen shipping solution may not be easy.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:54 am to AUriptide
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Ummm...No, thanks
A 66% chance to have a very, very mild COVID and anti-bodies already in your body? That seems good to me, closer to herd immunity.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:57 am to Old Money
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A 66% chance to have a very, very mild COVID and anti-bodies already in your body? That seems good to me, closer to herd immunity.
Yeah. If given the choice, I'd take the other vaccine(s).
But more availability is definitely better.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 10:00 am to member12
If our country was smart, we’d try to get all the able bodied 20-50 year olds the J&J vaccine to get us to that threshold of herd immunity and get the really effective vaccines to the ones who need nearly 100% protection.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 10:01 am to goofball
Fauci is now saying even if vaccinated you can’t eat indoors or go to a movie.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 10:02 am to Simon Gruber
Does that mean that anyone who gets it only has to wear 34% of a mask?
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