We may soon have a third vaccine. Hereâs what you need to know about the Johnson & Johnson shot
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Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center investigational pharmacy technician Sara Berech held a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine before it was administered in a clinical trial.Michael Ciaglo/Getty
A new COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson that uses technology pioneered by the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston made headlines on Friday when results of its late-stage clinical trials were announced.
The development was hailed as good news, even though the company reported that its one-shot vaccine had a lower efficacy rate than
Why more people are starting to wear two masks Martin Finucane
Is it time to start wearing two masks?
With the pandemic still raging in the United States and the arrival of a rapid-spreading coronavirus variant, some experts have recommended wearing two masks.
The idea has been gaining traction. If you looked closely at President Joe Biden’s inauguration this week, you could see some prominent double-maskers. Biden himself has worn two masks. But you can also see people walking down the street who have adopted the practice.
In a mid-December commentary in the journal Cell on the science of mask-wearing, two experts wrote that one way for the public to get “maximal protection” from masks was to “wear a cloth mask tightly on top of a surgical mask where the surgical mask acts as a filter and the cloth mask provides an additional layer of filtration while improving the fit.”Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht: Up your mask game
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