J&J s COVID-19 vaccine could protect millions - if people take it
One-dose version s overall efficacy is below Pfizer, Moderna
Angelica LaVito and Riley Griffin, Bloomberg
March 1, 2021
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Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine could protect millions more Americans from contracting the coronavirus. The key will be assuring people that the single-shot vaccine is worth taking, as its overall efficacy appears lower than the two-dose ones already on the market in the U.S.
J&J’s shot, which U.S. regulators authorized Saturday, is more convenient than the vaccines cleared by the Food and Drug Administration last year. It requires one injection and can be stored for months in a refrigerator. State health officials and the Biden administration see it as a way to quickly host mass clinics as more transmissible virus variants continue to spread. Yet the ease of distributing the vaccine will need to be balanced with the risk of creating the perception that J&J’s sho
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Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine could protect millions more Americans from contracting the coronavirus. The key will be assuring people that the single-shot vaccine is worth taking, as its overall efficacy appears lower than the two-dose ones already on the market in the U.S.J&J’s shot, which U.S. regulators authorized Saturday, is more convenient than the vaccines cleared by the Food and Drug Administration last year.
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(CNN) The US Food and Drug Administration authorized Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine Saturday. It is the first single dose Covid-19 vaccine available in the US, and is one that checks nearly all the boxes.
With more than 28.5 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and over 511,000 reported deaths in the US since the start of the pandemic, and while the demand for vaccine still far exceeds supply, these vaccines can t come soon enough. A third safe and effective vaccine is very welcome news, Andy Slavitt, the White House s senior for Covid Response, tweeted on Friday.
The vaccine, made by Janssen, J&J s vaccine arm, is safe and effective, and it s considered flexible. It s a single dose, and it doesn t require special storage.