Johnson & Johnson says vaccine protects against delta, effective 8 months later By Ryan Chatelain Nationwide
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Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is still effective at least eight months out and also protects against the worrisome delta variant, the company said Thursday.
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Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is still effective at least eight months out and also protects against the worrisome delta variant, the company said Thursday
In one study, researchers used blood samples from eight participants in its clinical trial and found that the vaccine elicited neutralizing antibody activity against the delta variant
In the second study, scientists found that immune responses generated from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine lasted at least eight months
Despite an increase in COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned during a Monday press briefing that she remains deeply concerned about a potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic.
Walensky, citing the latest data from the agency, said that the recent declines in COVID-19 cases have leveled off at roughly 70,000 cases per day. You know, the goal is not to sort of open up travel, open up all of, you know, things because people you know, we’re scaling up vaccination. The goal in those first 100 days has always been to sort of make sure that we are in a place to be out of this pandemic, Walensky said. At 70,000 cases per day, we’re not in that place right now.
Johnson & Johnson is expected to deliver 20 million doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. by the end of March and 100 million by the end of June, the company’s chief scientific officer told FOX Business.
The company is also on track to produce 1 billion doses for global distribution by the end of 2021.
“We are gearing up production globally to get to one billion for the world by the end of the year,” Dr. Paul Stoffels told “Varney & Co” on Monday.
“There will be huge numbers of vaccines available in the second half of the year for the U.S. and for the rest of the world,” he added.
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