Dozens line up in Balboa Park hoping to get Johnson & Johnson vaccine
and last updated 2021-03-09 20:51:54-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â Dozens of people spent Tuesday camped out outside the Balboa Park municipal gym hoping to get any leftover doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.
Tuesday morning, The San Diego Fire-Rescue department began administering the first batch of doses to those who are eligible since the first shipment arrived on Monday.
Addie Burnett said she hasn t been able to get an appointment over the phone and she doesn t have a computer. At the age of 80, she s been eligible for weeks.
The good news about Johnson & Johnson getting approval for their Janssen COVID-19 vaccine is it opened up a lot more appointments. Over 70,000 of the one-shot doses were sent to New Jersey after the FDA granted emergency authorization use.
If there’s any bad news, and none of it is really bad, it’s the efficacy rate is lower than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines but those were tested in trials before the mutations were out. Had they been tested at the same time, experts say the rates would have been similar.
I received the one-shot J&J vaccine on Monday. With it being the newest vaccine and receiving the protection all at once, people have been wondering about side effects.
Professionals in the Texas Medical Center held a briefing Wednesday, the same day that the state's mask mandate and all restrictions have been lifted, about a number of topics related to COVID-19.
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The east side Walmart will be using the Moderna vaccine, which requires two shots, while the west side Walmart will be using the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which requires just one shot. The Moderna vaccine is currently being offered to “almost everybody,” according to Amy Vircks, the Pharmacy Manager of Casper Walmart’s Eastside Pharmacy location.
“We’ve got a ton of the [COVID-19] vaccine,” Vircks stated. “That huge weather storm had really hindered us because we were really affected when those 6 million doses did not go out. After that, they sent me double. They only let me do so many [vaccines] per week, so we’re having people sign up for the vaccine online, because almost everybody qualifies now; they just have to have one chronic condition. And they count things like obesity, diabetes, hypothyroidism, anything that count as a chronic condition.”