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Vaccine Breakthrough Count High: How Safe Is Johnson & Johnson's Corona Vaccine?

2021-09-19T06:26:02.856Z


Apparently there are more and more vaccine breakthroughs with the corona vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. But how safe is the vaccine?


Apparently there are more and more vaccine breakthroughs with the corona vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.

But how safe is the vaccine?

Kassel - Experts and authorities are reporting more and more vaccine breakthroughs with the Corona * vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 6,106 people in Germany have so far fallen ill despite complete protection from the vaccine.

A few weeks ago, experts had expressed their doubts about the effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

A few days ago a 13-year-old boy in Kassel had accidentally received the vaccine from Johnson & Johnson *.

Up to now around three million people in this country have received a Johnson & Johnson vaccination.

For every million people vaccinated, there would be around 2000 vaccination breakthroughs.

For comparison: With the vaccine from Biontech that is most frequently used in Germany, these figures show around 675 breakthroughs per million people who are fully vaccinated.

Johnson & Johnson vaccine works against severe corona diseases

The vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is the only corona vaccine approved in the EU so far that, according to the EU Medicines Agency (EMA), only requires one dose to be injected.

After a corona vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it takes longer than after the mRNA vaccine until sufficient antibodies are formed, says Carsten Watzl, Secretary General of the German Society for Immunology.

"Sometimes the levels are still rising more than a month after the vaccination".

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How Safe is Johnson & Johnson's Corona Vaccine?

© Daniel Karmann / dpa

Since the antibody levels are well below those generated by the other vaccines, the protection against corona infection after the Janssen vaccination appears to be significantly worse, said Watzl.

However, the vaccine does protect against severe corona disease, he emphasized.

Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman defends corona vaccine

A spokeswoman for the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson said that no corona vaccine can currently prevent infections 100 percent.

"Our approved Covid-19 vaccine as a single dose can, however, have been shown to help reduce the risk of infection and avoid severe courses," she emphasized.

Single-dose data from the Johnson & Johnson corona vaccine indicated a robust and long-lasting effect - over a period of eight months measured so far.

Also against Delta and other virus variants.

(Jan Wendt)

* hna.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

A new corona vaccine should now also convince vaccine skeptics.

List of rubric lists: © Daniel Karmann / dpa

Source: merkur

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