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More and more young people are choosing to vaccinate against COVID-19 with Johnson & Johnson’s preparation. The lower effectiveness of this vaccine, compared to Pfizer and Moderna, is of less importance to them than convenience and speed. – One injection and the matter is gone – they emphasize.
- The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is one of the four preparations used in Poland for vaccination against COVID-19. It is becoming more and more popular
- According to the Ministry of Health, over 100 were given last weekend. J&J vaccine doses. The total number of vaccinations on those days was around 360.
- This preparation is chosen especially by young people who – fully vaccinated – want to go abroad on vacation
- More information on vaccinations can be found on the Onet homepage
Johnson & Johnson vaccine – wanted by young people
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is becoming more and more popular in our country. According to BioStat research from March, this preparation would then choose more than 20 percent. respondents (almost three times more votes than in the case of AstraZeneca). And it was one month before the first doses of this vaccine were delivered to Poland.
Now, certainly, the preparation is even more popular, to say the least – desirable. Especially by young people. Reason? Holidays. The youngest years could sign up for the vaccination from the beginning of May, so the entire procedure related to the administration of two doses of the vaccine could be completed in July or August, which for people who wanted to go abroad in the summer might be too late. The problem disappears when you can get vaccinated with just one dose.
Therefore, since it is possible to choose the type of vaccine, vaccine tourism has started in search of specific preparations.
– We want to go to Croatia with my girlfriend in June, then it will not be as expensive there as in the middle of summer. Coronavirus tests are a considerable expense for us, we cannot afford it, and if we are vaccinated, we will not have to do them – said 25-year-old Cuba from Bielsko-Biała recently in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza.
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– Vaccinations with AstraZeneka and Pfizer were available earlier, but I prefer J&J. I was able to find a date in two weeks. First of all, I want to go on vacation as soon as possible, secondly I feel sorry to waste time and another day of vacation for vaccination – says Piotr for Wirtualna Polska. Piotr, a resident of Warsaw, “hunted” the coveted vaccine in Łódź.
Young people are not bothered by the slightly lower declared effectiveness of the vaccine than in the case of Pfizer or Moderna preparations. What’s more, for some it is also important that J&J is an “old” type, i.e. vector vaccine. This mechanism was used in the development of vaccines against Ebola, HIV, RSV and Zika viruses.
Johnson & Johnson – easier and faster
The fact that the Johhson & Johnson vaccine is single dose makes vaccination so-called much easier. from the march. Mobile vaccination points appear in many places in Poland, offering vaccination with this particular preparation. All you need is an e-referral.
It will be like that in the coming days in Suwałki. From Wednesday to Sunday, there will be such a point in front of the local Commune Office. There will be 4 available. doses.
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– We want to facilitate vaccination against COVID-19 for the inhabitants of the Suwałki region, and at the same time promote the idea of vaccination as the most effective method of fighting the coronavirus epidemic so that as many people from our region as possible are vaccinated – said the voivode of Podlasie, Bohdan Paszkowski.
Earlier, on the May weekend, a similar action was organized throughout the country. It was used by over 40 thousand. people.
Johnson & Johnson vaccine – how does it work?
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has the official name of COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen and is the fourth preparation approved in the European Union. It is also used, among others in the United States and the UK Britain.
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The preparation of the Johnson & Johnson concern has an efficiency of approx. 66%. On this scale, it protects against infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus. On the other hand, the effectiveness of protection against severe COVID-19 and death is 85%. Protection begins 14 days after vaccination, and the maximum level of immunity is attained 28 days after vaccination.
The vaccine is based on the replication-deficient adenovirus, Ad26. It is the carrier of the genetic material by which the cells of the vaccinated person begin to produce the spike protein (spike protein, S protein) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. By reacting to the protein of the virus, the body builds up immunity.
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