Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) Vaccine

Not in an at-risk group and got the J&J shot a few months ago when it was made available for younger adults. I'd much rather see a vaccine go to somebody who desperately needs it, than as a booster for me. I'll wait for govt/NIAC advice but I am not in any rush right now as the vaccine is still a very effective one.

Well, the first one worked well enough anyway and the single dose was a huge speed boost for any programme. Be a surprise to see it be offered as a second/booster dose and mRNA would be more likely IMO. Not sure we will necessarily get to that stage anyway.

J & J is an intramuscular vaccine though?

Why should have it been a two shot? Where are you basing this from? Or do you just really enjoy taking shots.

Is the 2 shot trial the single dose twice or is the formulation different? Can you get a vaccine certificate for it?

Glad to see a thread on this. My mother is mid 60’s so recommended for a booster when the time comes, but got a Jannsen first time around.

She’s allergic to a preservative in the Pfizer vaccine. In the UK, they avoided giving Pfizer to people with this allergy but here they have no policy regarding that allergy. So she had to push to get a J&J from the HSE when her time came.

She’s very conscious of covid and still nervous about it, so I’d love to see her get a booster - but she can’t take the Pfizer. And there’s nothing out there about J&J recipients. The GP knows nothing about it either and can’t help. Limbo indeed!

I think Moderna is still available, the contract certainly has lots of deliveries left and their Swiss plant isn't that long online, I wonder if the time will come when some of the adenovector vaccines might be available privately. Other than that it's waiting for Novavax (and hoping they don't use the same preservative).

The fact that the HSE isn't listing it as an issue may indicate that the amount of the preservative is too small to be of issue for those allergic, but you really need a well trained doctor/consultant to make that determination (i.e. don't rely on the internet and that's understanding that it's hard to find some qualified to make that determination).

I think I have symptoms as well and I got J&J in July. I'm giong to go for a test tomorrow.

BTW, were you told to self-isolate for 10 days?

It was a single dose twice, 3 months apart.

I was able to get a vaccine cert, We had to kick up a fuss to get them at the beginning but it's essentially a letter saying we had an approved vaccine and I haven't had issues in the 4 countries I have visited. Most people just look to see if you have had a jab and that's all they care about. I had more questions getting into Ireland in May as I had just been unblinded and the vaccine passports were still an idea and I didn't have a vaccine card that they gave out as I wasn't told at the time what I had.

We are more likely to see an mRNA option offered instead and it depends how useful they think it is moving into the under 60s for boosters.

People aged 50-60 were given J & J in May, so they will be over 6 months any day now with only one jab, why do NIAC continue to delay and delay when it comes to peoples risk of covid? These people only have one JAB!

J & J and the FDA in America are now saying that J and J should be at least a 2 dose vaccine.

Wake up NIAC and please do your job.

I understand it will be an MRNA booster for anyone now in Ireland, NIAC have already authorized heterologous vaccine mixing.

You will have within 2 weeks a large cohort of people (50-60 year olds) who will be over 6 months with only 1 jab, that is my point.

+1

It's enough to get us through this 4th wave and after that, we will be in the spring when there is a lot lower transmission. As such, this is the final push with covid as far as I can see so by the time it actually comes to even recommend boosters for us, covid will be in the back mirror.

Yeah, but they are far less likely to have the same risk levels as far older or more at risk people. The aim is to get them to those who need them.