Do I need a booster if I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Probably at some point, but health officials still are collecting the data.
Do I need a booster if I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Probably at some point, but health officials still are collecting the data needed to decide. With boosters being planned in the U.S. as early as the fall for those who got the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, recipients of the single-dose J&J jab might be wondering just how well their protection is holding up. All the vaccines used in the U.S. — including the J&J vaccine — still are doing their job of preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.“I don’t think there’s any signal that the J&J vaccine is failing at its primary task,“ said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Despite continued protection against severe disease, U.
