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The US has already flattened the curve substantially with our vax rollout, deaths are curving down hard, cases are down 80% from peak. J&J is about 5% of all va
by thehappypm 6y ago
The US has already flattened the curve substantially with our vax rollout, deaths are curving down hard, cases are down 80% from peak. J&J is about 5% of all vax doses given. It hasn't really been very helpful so far and it doesn't really make sense to keep it in rotation if it's dangerous and Pfizer and Moderna are the main workhorses anyway.
If I was in a country with no alternatives, it would be a fundamentally different calculus.
- spikels 6y ago> J&J is about 5% of all vax doses given. It hasn't really been very helpful so far This is a very misleading talking point being spread around today, including by the White House. Very disappointing. * J&J only requires one dose while all the others require two doses. So counting doses is misleading. J&J represents more than 10% of the actual full vaccinations. Many two dose vaccinations have not been completed (some will never be). * The US has ordered 200 million doses J&J doses and a total of 600 million doses of the two dose vaccines. So J&J represents 40% of the full vaccinations ordered to date. * J&J vaccine was only approved on February 27th while Pfizer and Moderna were approved back on December 11th and 18th, respectively. People pushing this 5% number as obviously trying to put the best face on this screw up.
- thehappypm 6y agoThe 5% number is a fact. There's no agenda behind it -- 95% of all shots-in-arms so far is non-J&J.