Johnson & Johnson Covid - 19 Vaccine
The FDA is meeting today to review J&J Covid vaccine - this vaccine requires only one shot - it is 66% effective at preventing moderate to severe Covid -19 - 28 days after vaccination - It is 85% effective preventing severe disease - the Corvid vaccine will prevent hospitalizations and provide protection against severe illness - it is also effective against a new strain of coronavirus found in Africa - this is different from the other two - Modema and Pfizer vaccines in the way its made - Researchers took DNA from the coronavirus and put it in a shell called an adenovirus - the adenovirus cannot replicate in your system or make you sick. it acts like a Trojan horse by entering your system like a virus would and then prompting your body to create antibodies - J&J has decades of research on adenovirus vaccines including the Ebola vaccine , the HPV vaccine, the hepatitis B vaccine and one of the influenza vaccines
I think I am going to wait and see if this vaccine becomes available - I like the idea of only one shot - it seems if you get the shot and still get the virus it won't be bad and won't kill you - at this time if you sign up for the shot you can't specify which one you want since the supply is still limited -
