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Johnson & Johnson has released results showing that a Covid-19 jab it is developing received strong protection in monkeys after just a single dose of the vaccine
How do the Covid-19 vaccines work?
Human trials of the coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed at the University of Oxford suggest it is safe and induces an immune response to Covid-19. But what does the vaccine do, how does it work, and what happens next?
Johnson & Johnson today kicked off U.S. human safety trials for its Covid-19 vaccine after releasing details of a study that showed monkeys received strong protection from a single dose.
In addition, five out of six were protected from infection as measured by the presence of virus in nasal swabs, according to the study published in the journal Nature.
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"This gives us confidence that we can test a single-shot vaccine in this epidemic and learn whether it has a protective effect in humans," Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J's chief scientific officer, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
The U.S. government is backing J&J's vaccine effort with $456 million in funding as part of a spending spree aimed at speeding production of a vaccine to end the pandemic, which has infected millions and killed more than 660,000 people.
Stoffels said prior tests of this type of vaccine in other diseases found that a second shot significantly increases protection.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-coronavirus-vaccine-hope-monkeys-22441460
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