Regarding the effectiveness of the one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, the Bay’s top public health officials have come together for what appears to be their definitive statement on the vaccination options currently available in the United States.
Public health officials from Santa Cruz, Berkeley and all nine Bay Area counties – Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma – issued a statement on Monday stressing that all vaccination options are “safe and has been shown to be very effective in preventing symptomatic diseases and hospitalization.”
“The clinical trials for all three vaccines have been shown to be 100% effective in preventing COVID-19 deaths,” the dispatch reads. “There is also increasing evidence that all three vaccines also help prevent asymptomatic diseases.”
The statement reflects that of prominent public health experts, many of whom stressed that the latest vaccine approved for emergency use in the United States is just as valuable as its two-shot brothers.
The statement acknowledges the general perception that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is less effective than its counterparts, exacerbated in part by officials such as Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who declined an award for the Johnson & Johnson dose. showed after they suggested inferior to the Moderna and Pfizer shots.
“What is not disputed is that all three of the vaccines – Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson – are extremely effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths,” Duggan said in a statement in the Detroit Free Press days after he was criticized. for the comments. .
“There have been many debates about the benefits of one vaccine brand over another, but it is difficult to compare its efficacy,” the statement said, adding that none of the vaccines had been head-to-head investigated to determine state how well it is done. work at the same time.
The general statistics for the efficacy levels of each vaccine all took place in different contexts, while Johnson and Johnson faced newer variants of the virus.
“While COVID-19 continues to circulate as we work for community immunity,” the statement said, “our medical advice is this: the best vaccine is the one you can get the fastest.”