https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10099209/FDA-advisory-committee-recommended-approval-J-J-vaccine.html"Get your second J&J dose ASAP say health experts after FDA advisory committee recommended approval of booster:
Protection fell from 88% to just 3% in six months, study finds Experts have suggested that adults get their Johnson & Johnson booster shots as soon as possible
The FDA advisory committee unanimously voted on Friday to recommend COVID booster shots of J&J's vaccine to all adults after two months
Research has shown the immunity provided by the vaccine diminishes over time
A recent study of 620,000 military veterans found that J&J's vaccine's protection fell from 88% in March to just 3% in August On Thursday, the FDA advisory committee recommended that the Moderna vaccine be approved for a booster shot for those 65 and older
The Pfizer COVID vaccine was approved for a booster shot in September for those 65 and older and adults at risk
By Adriana Diaz For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:19 EDT, 16 October 2021 | Updated: 23:50 EDT, 16 October 2021
The advisory committee, made up of an array of public health experts, announced on Friday that all adults who were vaccinated with the one-dose vaccine get a second shot at least two months after their first. One study, released Thursday but not peer-reviewed, tracked more than 620,000 military veterans who received the vaccine and found that protection fell from 88% in March to just 3% in August.
'There is a public health imperative here, because what we're seeing is that this is a group with overall lower efficacy than we have seen with the mRNA vaccines,' Dr. Arnold Monto, the committee's acting chairman and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health said.
'So there is some urgency there to do something.'
In comparison, Moderna's vaccine effectiveness fell from 92% to 64% and Pfizer's vaccine protection dropped from 91% to 50%.Nearly 15 million Americans received the J&J vaccine, with nearly 91% of them having gotten the shot more than two months ago, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
COVID vaccine booster shots are being recommended even though cases of infections have been dropping after a summer surge caused by the Delta variant. Experts point to CDC data that shows unvaccinated adults are 11 times more likely to die of COVID than vaccinated adults."
[But of course that's because
the CDC counts everyone that dies prior to two weeks after their second jab as being unvaccinated, while
80% of vaccine deaths fall within that window. It becomes conspicuous how we are being lied to when we
see hospitalization stats from other countries, which foreign data is also what convinced the
FDA panel to reject Pfizer as a booster except for disposal in the elderly.]
"'J&J is a very good vaccine. I also believe it's probably a two-shot vaccine,' Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health told CNN. 'It's really urgent that people get that second shot pretty quickly.
On Thursday, the FDA advisory committee recommended booster shots of Moderna to those over the age of 65 but the agency delayed its decision to authorize the COVID vaccine for teenagers and younger adults.
The FDA will now consider the advisory committee's recommendations on the J&J and Moderna COVID booster shots to make an official decision. If the FDA accepts the recommendation, which it is expected to do, booster shots could be made available as soon as next week.
The FDA previously authorized booster shots of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to those 65 years old and above or any adult who is considered 'high-risk' due to their living, work, or health conditions.
'I think anybody who's gotten one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can benefit from a second dose of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine,' Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee told CNN.
He believes that the J&J vaccine would have been initially recommended as a two-dose vaccine if it had not been created in a time of such urgency.
The study of military veterans concluded that: 'Vaccines remain the most important tool to prevent infection, severe illness, and death, but vaccines should be accompanied by additional measures, including masking, hand washing, physical distancing, and other public health interventions, in the face of increased risk of infection due to the Delta variant.'
The FDA advisory committee also discussed the possibility of mixing and matching booster shots, which they said would allow flexibility and potentially give those with one dose of J&J better immunity, during Friday's meeting.
However, some were skeptical about combining vaccines due to the limited data on the matter."
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So as we learn what a disaster this first round has been, by not having sufficient animal testing, so the solution is to mix vaxxes together with no studies of the consequences whatsoever? Well done!
Let alone that the 6 month efficacy is not likely a linear progression downward but more that of a series of half lives.
