TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the American POM Friday, February 26, 2021, recommends vaccine Covid-19 made by Johnson & Johnson. This means the third vaccine approved.
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Like the other two – one made by Modern Inc., others are joint efforts by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE – a vaccine from the Janssen Biotech company J&J looks very good at achieving a major public health goal: keeping people out of hospitals.
This vaccine depends on technology different, but, like others, shows no signs of causing severe and long-lasting side effects. And this vaccine has several advantages, among which the recipient only needs one dose instead of two.
Medical officers prepare the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine which will be injected into residents. Norwegian authorities said the 23 people who had died, 13 of the deaths could have been caused, directly, by the side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine. REUTERS / Ciro De Luca
The estimated percentage of cases prevented in the J&J vaccine trial is lower than the figures reported for the other two vaccines, but infectious disease experts say that may not be a fair comparison, for reasons discussed below.
The advice overwhelmingly from infectious disease experts is to get whichever vaccine is available. University of Pennsylvania nursing school professor Alison Buttenheim, who testified before a congressional committee earlier this week said the best vaccine is the one you can get tomorrow.
For an overview of how the J&J vaccine differs from others, doctor Nina Gentile, who oversees the drug trials at Temple University Hospital, and Wistar Institute scientist Hildegund Ertl, explain below.
How the J&J Vaccine Works
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