|
If you are eligible for a
COVID-19 vaccine and don’t know which one to select, the
fact is in most sites that are currently dispensing
vaccines, you won’t have a choice. One of the few exceptions
in the Lucas County area is the Health Partners of Western
Ohio. Currently the site on Nebraska Avenue is vaccinating
200 people a day and, as of last Wednesday, March 10, the
site had started allowing visitors to pick between the
Moderna vaccine and the newly approved Johnson & Johnson
one.
Neither vaccine will give
you COVID-19 as there is no COVID-19 virus in the vaccine,
the agency wants everyone to understand. Both vaccines have
been developed by scientific developments much different
from vaccines in the past hundreds of years that have used a
bit of a virus to prevent a larger spread of the virus in
the human body.
The Moderna vaccine is a
two-shot application that contains messenger ribonucleic
acid (mRNA) to deceive the body’s cells into thinking that
they are fighting the actual virus.
The Johnson & Johnson
vaccine, a single dose shot, contains recombinant,
replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 expressing the
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which also deceives the body’s
cells.
Both vaccines have
undergone extensive trial use, have been approved by the FDA
and displayed efficacy rates well above the rates the FDA
has approved in the past for vaccines.
|
