A booster dose of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine generated "a rapid and robust increase in spike-binding antibodies" according to interim data from two early-stage trials.
According to J&J, a second dose of the J&J single-dose vaccine resulted in binding antibody levels nine times higher than the levels 28 days after people received their first dose. The data comes from two phase 2 studies conducted in the United States and Europe. Approximately 2,000 people in the studies got booster doses six months after their first doses of J&J's Janssen vaccine.
The study summaries are being submitted to the preprint server MedRxiv in advance of peer review.
J&J says it plans to submit the data to the FDA. The drugmaker's vaccine was absent from the government’s initial booster plan for Pfizer and Moderna, announced last week.
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