New Hartford, NY – When it was announced on Wednesday that MVHS in Utica had received a consignment of Johnson & Johnson vaccine from New York State and the doses would be administered on Saturday at their Burrstone Road vaccination pool, just above the Utica line in New York. Hartford, these slots filled up quickly on the State Health Department website, and it wasn’t just local people who signed up.
Gloria Fletcher of Auburn reported early on Saturday morning at her appointment in New Hartford, saying she was more than willing to undertake the hour and a half journey: ‘I could get the Pfizer at the fair, but I do not want Pfizer, i wanted the Johnson & Johnson. ‘
It was only two weeks ago on Saturday 27 February that the US Food and Drug Administration approved the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, and since then many people across the country have been trying to make sure they get the specific vaccine . vaccine because it is only one-vaccine instead of two, like the vaccines Pfizer and Moderna.
Gloria Fletcher was not only undertaking the long journey Saturday specifically to get the J&J vaccine in New Hartford, Shawn Gilbert also undertook an hour and a half journey, but from Cortland: “I feel great to get the J&J. One and done. “
Bill West undertook the one-hour journey from Old Forge to New Hartford: ‘I wanted the single dose. I thought it would be much better than waiting three weeks for a second dose, and I was able to get my immunity right away.
However, there are many people who do not want the Johnson & Johnson because the J&J clinical trials showed that the effectiveness of the drug was 66%, while the versions of Moderna and Pfizer were above 94%.
Efficacy in this case means the prevention of symptomatic COVID infection. The trial also showed that the drug was 85% effective in those who received COVID after receiving the J&J vaccine, and that there were no hospitalizations or deaths among people in the vaccine trial.
Shawn Gilbert of Cortland says she trusts science: “I feel like they would not release it if it were not something the work could not do.”
Some, like Gloria Fletcher of Auburn, say they are more comfortable with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because there have not been many reports of serious side effects since Americans started receiving the single vaccine across the country almost two weeks ago . I heard a lot more side effects, especially from the Moderna, and also in the Pfizer, and I did not really hear anything (with J&J vaccine), a little sore, a rise in temperature maybe a few hours thereafter with a Johnson & Johnson. ‘
U.S. health officials say when it comes to vaccination, get what you can get, when you can get it. They say all three vaccines are safe and protect everyone from serious cases of COVID and even death if you get them, plus each dose brings the country so much closer to herd immunity.