Johnson & Johnson starts human vaccine trials

[Common]

After Monkey Study

That was quick, maybe too quick



Johnson & Johnson kicked off human trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, after the shots already proved successful in protecting monkeys, the drugmaker announced.


Company honchos pointed to a new study which found that five out of six primates who got the single-dose shot were protected from infection when exposed to the coronavirus, as measured by its presence in nasal swabs.


“This gives us confidence that we can test a single-shot vaccine in this epidemic and learn whether it has a protective effect in humans,” Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer told Reuters.


The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, also found that six out of six of the monkeys were protected from lung disease related to COVID-19.


J&J said it will now test its vaccine candidate on more than 1,000 healthy adults aged 18 to 55, along with people over the age of 65 in early-stage human trials in the United States and Belgium.


In other cases, researchers found a second shot significantly increases protection from disease — but a single-shot vaccine is crucial during a pandemic because it reduces issues such as getting people to come back for a second dose, Stoffels said.


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[Peter1469]

Stay woke $#@!es and get your vaccine when it is ready. I will wait a decade or so to see how it turns out.

[Common]

Too much of a mad rush to make 100s of billions, its not just the USA they have the potential to sell it around the world if they are the first to get it approved.

Too fast