Re:CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson ...
by gher-shyu3i on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:12PM
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Immunity is not permanent. We know people who got infected more than once.
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Re:CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson ...
by hammock on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:27PM
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Even taking the data least charitable to my postulate, a study[1] (which there are issues with that I will not mention) using a sample of 63 million medical records found a reinfection rate of 0.48% compared to 2.2% infection rate for the previously uninfected.
This study therefore estimated protection against reinfection was 78.8%.
That's higher than the 72% efficacy offered by the J&J vaccine.
[1]https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/l-tls031821....
Re:CDC panel recommends resuming use of Johnson and Johnson ...
by arcticbull on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:05PM
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Potentially all the vaccines; the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were tested before the emergence of variants. The J&J was more effective in the US where fewer variants were present at the time of testing than internationally where the opposite was true.