{"id":37304,"date":"2021-07-05T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37304"},"modified":"2021-07-05T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:42:38","slug":"preliminary-data-show-jj-vaccine-could-be-effective-against-delta-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37304","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary data show J&#038;J vaccine could be effective against delta variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary data show that Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s one-dose coronavirus vaccine could be effective against the delta variant (B.1.617.2) of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rwlwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrrnjcg_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a=&amp;b=40415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rwlwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrrnjcg_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40415&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625373706832000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIzLtvRM_mRGFtD0UL12SRFbiv5Q\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that its vaccine demonstrated a \u201cstrong, persistent activity against the rapidly spreading Delta variant and other highly prevalent SARS-CoV-2 viral variants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company added that the data showed the durability of the response lasted for at least eight months.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xsssknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvvhgdb_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a=&amp;b=40415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xsssknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvvhgdb_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40415&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625373706832000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXLH8f5tgppAr0YXD2LPF5jHgZJg\">said on Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0that its vaccine produced neutralizing antibodies after two doses against the delta and the beta variants in a lab study.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/iznzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhhvgyn_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a=&amp;b=40415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/iznzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhhvgyn_ufhhnnwqwshfqnqfnyyq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40415&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625373706832000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4mlQHBfaX0y7mps1uEzg4FMOWEw\">also been found<\/a>\u00a0to offer protection against hospitalization due to the variant in a study in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:\u00a0<\/strong>There has been growing concern about the level of protection offered by the J&amp;J vaccine against the delta variant, leading some people to take matters into their own hands and get a booster dose of an mRNA vaccine like Moderna or Pfizer-BioNtech. This announcement could tamp down some of those concerns, but it&#8217;s also worth noting the data have not been published yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary data show that Johnson &amp;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37305,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37304\/revisions\/37305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}