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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 18

    Question for all the smart people who follow me: can you explain simply why the J&J vaccine only needs one dose but Pfizer/AZ/Moderna etc need 2?

    7:21 PM - 18 Mar 2021
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 18

        Full disclosure: someone asked me this and I have no idea so plz enlighten me because I'm sure the answer is super interesting but immunology is HARD

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      2. George Hagstrom‏ @GeorgeHagstrom Mar 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        I don't know but assumed it was because JJ did a study of 1 dose whereas others didn't

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 18
        Replying to @GeorgeHagstrom

        That's true, and I can tell you that one dose works for J&J by reading the research, but explaining the mechanisms...I need help

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      2. Rupert Beale‏Verified account @bealelab Mar 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        It’s a really good spike antigen. I think it’s probably as simple as that.

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      3. Jay Wolberg‏ @JayWolberg Mar 18
        Replying to @bealelab @GidMK

        Is there reason to believe that immunity may last longer from one vax vs the other? What's the current theory on immunity duration? Seems like the immune system memory wouldn't depend on specific spike composition.

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      2. Edward Nirenberg‏ @ENirenberg Mar 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        I don't think you can easily compare the mRNA vaccines to JJJ; with AZ though the immunogen is native spike but the JJJ vaccine used prefusion-stabilized spike which is a superior immunogen. But my go-to on this is always Phase 1/2 studies said so

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 18
        Replying to @ENirenberg

        Lol that's my go-to answer but I want to know WHY they said so 😂😂😂

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      2. David Baker‏ @DavidBa69494891 Mar 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        What if the answer is just because that's the way they did the trial? And maybe can't give two doses of the type of vaccine technology that J&J uses?

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      3. Matthew Brignall, ND‏ @drbrignall Mar 18
        Replying to @DavidBa69494891 @GidMK

        That is the answer. Here are the phase 1/2 data that gave the company the confidence to run the trial as single dose: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.23.20199604v1.full.pdf …

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      2. MF Doof‏ @pranishk Mar 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Most likely it was a clinical trial decision. It would have looked terrible if the vaccines didn’t meet efficacy requirements for FDA with a novel tech. So they made it 2 shots to make sure it hit the clinical endpoint. Call it abundance of caution. Or covering yo ass.

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      3. Christy Karras‏ @christykarras Mar 18
        Replying to @pranishk @GidMK

        Agreed (with the clarification that the novel tech is not the J&J version).

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