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J&J starting 'bridging' trials for Covid Vaccine approval in India.


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This is great news.  Hoping for a great outcome.

 

On a related note, during the Covishield (or maybe it was Covaxin?) trials, some of the participants somehow found out they had received the placebo and just dropped out of the trial.  Hope it doesn't happen and they are incentivized to continue to check in with the researchers.  

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Great news, just yesterday we talked about it. It is a common cold flu virus that gets injected as a vacc. Triggers a immune system that has been tested to protect against Covid virus. 66.3% efficacy lowest among all, but prevents hospitalization and death even if they get the virus. Lots of side effects - body ache, low grade fever for a day. 

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3 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Great news, just yesterday we talked about it. It is a common cold flu virus that gets injected as a vacc. Triggers a immune system that has been tested to protect against Covid virus. 66.3% efficacy lowest among all, but prevents hospitalization and death even if they get the virus. Lots of side effects - body ache, low grade fever for a day. 

I don't think its the lowest efficacy - that's a function of the testing datasets I believe. More knowledgeable folks can chime in.

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4 minutes ago, sandeep said:

I don't think its the lowest efficacy - that's a function of the testing datasets I believe. More knowledgeable folks can chime in.


It’s been updated as 72% . I was reading from their site after I got the vacc. 
 

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison

 

it has lower efficacy among SA variant

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/science/johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine.html

 

I will not visit SA for life 

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22 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:


It’s been updated as 72% . I was reading from their site after I got the vacc. 
 

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison

 

it has lower efficacy among SA variant

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/science/johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine.html

 

I will not visit SA for life 

 

AFAIK its "lower efficacy" is due to the fact that the testing was done in a population with the SA variant, while the pfizer/moderna were not.  

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1 hour ago, sandeep said:

I don't think its the lowest efficacy - that's a function of the testing datasets I believe. More knowledgeable folks can chime in.

 

1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Great news, just yesterday we talked about it. It is a common cold flu virus that gets injected as a vacc. Triggers a immune system that has been tested to protect against Covid virus. 66.3% efficacy lowest among all, but prevents hospitalization and death even if they get the virus. Lots of side effects - body ache, low grade fever for a day. 

 

https://youtu.be/K3odScka55A

 

As Sandeep says, it may be a function of when & where it has been tested. 

 

Vox gained new respect from me. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Clarke said:

 

 

https://youtu.be/K3odScka55A

 

As Sandeep says, it may be a function of when & where it has been tested. 

 

Vox gained new respect from me. 

 

 

There's so much "data" driven information out there - science reporting is poor these days, in pursuit of clickbaity headlines that almost intentionally mislead.  

 

Folks should always be aware of that instead of taking numbers and headlines at face value, and interpret them in the correct context, so that they don't draw misleading conclusions.  Easier said than done, even relatively intelligent and aware folks can get tripped up.  

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1 hour ago, coffee_rules said:

Great news, just yesterday we talked about it. It is a common cold flu virus that gets injected as a vacc. Triggers a immune system that has been tested to protect against Covid virus. 66.3% efficacy lowest among all, but prevents hospitalization and death even if they get the virus. Lots of side effects - body ache, low grade fever for a day. 

Efficacy depends on your type of sample size. Does the sample size has covid already etc.  ? 

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22 hours ago, gattaca said:

Efficacy depends on your type of sample size. Does the sample size has covid already etc.  ? 

Trials would involve exposing the vaccinated to the virus and examine if they contract it. Or test the anti-bodies resulted in the jacked up immune system, if it can fight or resist the facking damned protein. 

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22 hours ago, gattaca said:

Efficacy depends on your type of sample size. Does the sample size has covid already etc.  ? 

And that is exactly what the problem was. When J&J started testing COVID was rampant and that skewed their data and efficacy numbers.

 

Death and Hospitalization numbers were about the same as any messenger RNA vaccines.

 

Long story short if you are getting J&J, take it.

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14 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:


Where do you live to get a choice of vaccine?

 

I live in Virginia. Well, you don't really get a choice in a strict sense. But you can quite easily figure it out here. If I got a vaccine through the site set up by my employer, it would be Moderna. If I scheduled it at the local CVS Pharmacy, it was Pfizer I think. I scheduled mine at Kroger (grocery store), where it was J&J on the date I scheduled it for. 

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4 hours ago, coffee_rules said:


Where do you live to get a choice of vaccine?

In indiana we get a choice of vaccines. J and J was given almost to every walk in as the popularity for pfizer and moderna was high.

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That Poonawalla is such a troll, says he needs 3k crore to expand SII's vaccine production and is requesting Indian govt. Really, that sort of amount is what is holding u back :whack3:

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35 minutes ago, Clarke said:

That Poonawalla is such a troll, says he needs 3k crore to expand SII's vaccine production and is requesting Indian govt. Really, that sort of amount is what is holding u back :whack3:

You really do need seed money.

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