Today, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced that a second dose of its COVID-19 vaccine given 2 months after the first raises its effectiveness against moderate to severe disease to 94% in the United ...

What’s the news: Millions more people in the U.S. will soon be able to receive a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). This comes almost a month after a ...

boosters are available after only two months for adults who received the one-shot J&J vaccine. The new code assigned to the Janssen booster for the COVID-19 vaccine is: 0034A Immunization ...

J&J had originally sought approval of a booster dose at six months, but given signs that immunity is waning after a single dose, the panel concluded that a shorter timeframe would be better to ...

However, several studies have suggested that a booster dose provides significant protection against severe illness from the variant. The South African study showed the J&J vaccine's effectiveness ...

There was better news for J&J yesterday when the EMA's human medicines committee recommended that a booster dose of the shot may be given at least two months after a first dose in people aged 18 ...

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 ...

A single-center study today in JAMA Network Open finds longer-lasting humoral and cellular immune responses in US adults given a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine booster rather than a ...

The news comes a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on recommendations for the booster doses. Eligible Americans can get the Moderna booster six months after their ...