It's hard for me to tell if the thing is starting to make a comeback, or if this is the standard last scene of the spooky movie where they think the monster has been vanquished and the hero's about to get all mushy with his one true love, and then - surprise - not quite dead yet!
So I don't know if I'll skip it altogether, or just fall back to a position of posting something once in a while - if there's news - or try to find a different rhythm or what.
Anyway, here's what I've got today:
WaPo: (freebie)
CDC: If you got J&J’s vaccine and booster, consider an mRNA shot now
Combining single-dose shot with Pfizer, Moderna boosters offers better protection against severe covid, study shows
The nearly 17 million Americans who received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine are less protected against serious illness and hospitalizations than those who got the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots, according to federal data released Tuesday.
The latest data suggest Johnson & Johnson recipients should get a booster with one of the messenger RNA vaccines, if they haven’t already done so — and even consider a second messenger RNA booster for the greatest protection. The data come from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that analyzed the results of mix-and-match vaccine-and-booster combinations during a four-month period when the highly transmissible omicron variant was dominant.
Even combining a Johnson & Johnson vaccine with a booster of either Johnson & Johnson, or one of the two messenger RNA vaccines, wasn’t as strong as three shots of the messenger RNA vaccines in preventing emergency room visits or hospitalizations, according to the report.
Shortly after the study’s release, the CDC greenlighted a second booster, either of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shots, for those who received Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and booster at least four months ago. It did not formally recommend the second booster but said people may get it if they choose. More than 1.3 million people received the Johnson & Johnson vaccines and booster, according to CDC data.
Friendly reminder; it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us from Covid-19. It was the janitors, nurses, grocery, and food workers…
— mohamad safa (@mhdksafa) March 30, 2022
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