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zafrada
covid
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 11:46 PM
FDA approves boosters for Moderna and J&J.
FDA as expected approves Moderna and J&J boosters and heterologous boosters. Moderna's booster guidance is the same as Pfizer's booster. Six months after your second dose an adult can get a booster
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davije
covid
Saturday, October 16, 2021 1:30 PM
FDA APPROVES SECOND DOSE OF JANSSEN VACCINE.
Image - Agency R7 (Brazil). FDA authorizes Americans over 18 years to receive another dose of immunizer from two months of first application. *The immunizer should be given from two months of the first
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zafrada
covid
Thursday, October 14, 2021 1:04 AM
Mixing data is here!
Heterologous second doses were well-tolerated and effective. This trial didn't look at third dose boosters, but there is another trial looking at heterologous third dose boosters. I think I'll be getting
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zafrada
covid
Friday, July 23, 2021 2:35 AM
Immunogenecity of Moderna, Pfizer and J&J vaccines.
This graph conveys a lot of information in a compact way. This study directly compared antibody levels in various groups of people, including: Those who provided samples before the pandemic People with
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zafrada
covid
Saturday, July 3, 2021 12:39 AM
J&J vaccine trial shows excellent efficacy against Delta variant.
Today J&J released an 8-month update study in a small subset of trial participants (8 people), including information on the delta variant. They chose an older subset ranging in age from 47-91, in order
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zafrada
covid
Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:12 PM
J&J phase 1/2 trial data released.
Of interest to those who got J&J, an update on the people in the phase 1/2 trial was released yesterday. This early trial was a dosing study, so not everyone got the same dose as the one that eventually
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zafrada
covid
Monday, May 3, 2021 1:09 PM
Bell's palsy and J&J Vaccines.
FYI -- I did a quick search in VAERS for bell's palsy after covid vaccinations and came up with a possible signal for J&J. Looking specifically at the two-week window between two and four weeks after
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zafrada
covid
Saturday, April 17, 2021 10:35 AM
Contextualizing the risks of the J&J Vaccine.
ACIP didn't make a recommendation on J&J yesterday, but some useful background information was presented to contextualize things a bit more on the risks and costs. While 7.2 million doses of J&J
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zafrada
vaccine
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:11 AM
J&J vaccine pause plays more into anti-vax irrationality.
This has come up again with the J&J vaccine pause, but I'm curious how we should approach risk perception with vaccines and in general with public irrationality. Let me just preface if I was in charge
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leguna
vaccine
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:57 AM
Pause the FDA before they kill again!
Don’t suspend the J&J vaccine. Suspend the FDA instead - at least until they demonstrate that they understand basic cost-benefit analysis. A course in basic moral philosophy might be useful, too. Every
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nooses
coronavirus
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:20 PM
Remember that covid vaccines are an experiment with a pass on liability.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines. The mRNA is used by our cells to make virus proteins to create an immune response, not the whole virus. Then, the mRNA degrades. The Astra Zeneca and
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zafrada
covid
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:28 PM
Some good news and bad news on COVID vaccines and relaxing measures.
Of course the worst looking state on this map is the one relaxing the quickest. Why would this pandemic year go any different than it has before? More on this later.. Biden is now saying we will have enough
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zafrada
covid
Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:40 AM
J&J Vaccine data and some caveats.
Ahead of the VRBPAC meeting we got the briefing document for the J&J vaccine. It looks to be a pretty good vaccine, though some caveats. This one has a different primary efficacy endpoint than the
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zafrada
covid
Thursday, February 11, 2021 2:38 PM
Paving the way for vaccinations in the US and challenges which lie ahead.
There are 59 million Americans aged 65 or older. ~80% of the COVID deaths in the US so far have been in this age group. Many parts of the US are now in a vaccination tier where anyone aged 65 and older
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zafrada
covid
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 1:25 PM
Johnson & Johnson vaccine results are in.
J&J's vaccine results came a bit earlier than expected. The most important thing to highlight is it was 85% efficacious on preventing severe disease after 28 days. At 49 days, there were no cases of
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