Hospital Offers J&J Recipients 'Supplemental' Shots

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/04/hospital-offers-jj-recipients-supplemental-shots/

Hospital Offers J&J Recipients ‘Supplemental’ Shots
August 4, 2021 at 9:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Associated Press: “A San Francisco hospital appears to be the first in the nation to offer people who got the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine a follow-up dose for added protection, likely to help ward off the delta variant.”

[Phoenix61]

1. I wish they would do that here. nt

[GPV]

2. Me, too!

[MichMan]

3. Has that been recommended by the FDA?

[LisaL]

7. FDA hasn't made a peep.

NT

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. According to the few things I've seen where someone bothers

to look at those who got the J&J shot, it's apparently just as effective as the other two.

And yeah, is the CDC recommending this? Or are people just trying to cast doubts on J&J?

[LisaL]

6. Pfizer and Moderna were 94-95% effective during clinical trials.

J&J was 67%. And that's before delta. What data shows it was as effective as the other two?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Here's one thing I found.

In the J&J trial, the placebo group had 16 hospitalizations and seven deaths from COVID-19, whereas the vaccine group had none, which means the vaccine provided 100 percent efficacy against hospitalizations and deaths.

I don't feel like do an exhaustive search, but I seem to recall that even though some initial results made the J&J shot seem less effective, the immunity conferred by it tended to grow even after the initial 14 days needed to have full immunity.

Somehow, I think if the J&J shot were significantly less effective, that would have become glaringly obvious by now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. My assistant got the J&J vaccine

She is worried

[Red Mountain]

8. My understanding is that they stimulate the immune system in different ways

but the end result is the same immune response.