Effective protection against the fast-spreading coronavirus could require a vaccination plan like the one in place for the seasonal flu shot.
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky during an appearance on CNBC Tuesday said that for the next several years at least, people may need to get their COVID shots on an annual basis. His comments came just after the New Jersey-based company revealed that it applied for an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its vaccine.
Unlike the the Pfizer/BioNTech and Astrazenca treatments, both of which require two doses given several weeks apart, the J&J vaccine requires only one jab. While the single-dose treatment is anticipated to ease strain placed on inoculation initiatives, Gorsky warned that the virus will continue to mutate, placing a unique challenge on drugmakers and medical experts.
“Unfortunately, as [the virus] spreads it can also mutate,” he told CNBC.
“Every time it mutates, it’s almost like another click of the dial so to speak where we can see another variant, another mutation that can have an impact on its ability to fend off antibodies or to have a different kind of response not only to a therapeutic but also to a vaccine.”
Public health officials have previously warned COVID-19 is likely to remain long-term. They suspect that it will however become an endemic disease, meaning the virus will stay present across communities at all times but at lower levels than it is now.
In a report last month, Johnson & Johnson revealed its single-shot treatment had a 66% rate of preventing infections during its massive trial. It also warned that the treatment is even less effective at protecting against one variant of the virus, which first emerged in South Africa.
Gorsky told CNBC the company was “extremely confident” that it will meet its target to deliver 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the United States by the end of June. He noted that Johnson & Johnson is still working to develop a two-dose coronavirus vaccine as well.
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Follow the money and it will lead you to the truth. Just as expected, and here is the proof.
You spoke the truth.. QUICK, censure him.. RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky stated the virus mutates. We already knew that, just like the flu virus mutates. So Gorsky isn’t telling us anything we already do not know. Secondly, it is all about “money” between big Pharma, the CDC and Dr. Fauci! Case closed!
It’s just another way to control the masses. Face masks forever, social distancing, small business lock downs to destroy the middle class. All the big box stores stay open but no mom and pop’s businesses.
Exactly. EVER SINE this planned demic came into being, the left realized “HEY< WE have a ready made crisis here, to KEEP US controlling the masses for potentially decades!" YAY.
WE got locked down, they said for a few weeks, to control things. THEN IT morphed into a few months, Then they said "till we reign in the spread. Then "Till we get a vaccine", now they're saying "Till we get enough vaccinated people to get herd immunity".
WHATS THE BET, once that happens, they'll say "WE can't let up now, we need to stay locked down till Y happens", ….
More PROOF that they know NOTHING about the long term effects of this EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGIC AGENT.
Certain well-known and well-tested preventative medications ARE available, if you do some research. Or you can get in line with all of the other sheeple to get an experimental injection with unknown side effects. Choices have consequences.
Yep, need to take a shot every year! Wow, I saw this one coming when they do not know HOW effective this vaccine is yet.
During my 20 years in the navy, in 19 out of those 20, i got the MANDATED FLU SHOT, i caught the flu, within 2 days of getting it.
IN THE 8 year since i got out, i’ve NOT GOTTEN the vaccine, and coincidentally I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE FLU either…