<div dir="auto">Monica Gandhi is an excellent source. <div dir="auto">The J&J response improves dramatically with a second well-spaced dose.</div><div dir="auto">Initially I had mistakenly assumed Adenovirus vaccines would not work well for multiple doses because the immune system would be primed to destroy it. Fortunately, this has not been a problem.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 12:09 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Quoting Les Faby (<a href="mailto:lfaby2018@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lfaby2018@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> J&J encodes the same full spike D614G variant with 2 proline<br>
> substitutions to encode the pre-fusion spike protein as the mRNA<br>
> vaccines.<br>
> <br>
> Reference: How the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works<br>
> <a href="https://nyti.ms/2WuvMsA" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nyti.ms/2WuvMsA</a><br>
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Appreciated. For whatever it's worth, I was relying on this statement<br>
in the press:<br>
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“There is something that makes sense about it,” says Monica Gandhi,<br>
M.D., an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at<br>
University of California, San Francisco. And that’s because J&J’s viral<br>
vector vaccine and the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna “don't<br>
actually code for the exact same part of the spike protein,” she<br>
says.<br>
<br>
Meaning that while the two different vaccine technologies work in a<br>
similar way — they direct the body to make a harmless piece of the<br>
coronavirus’s signature spike protein so that the immune system<br>
can learn to recognize it as an invader and attack it if ever faced with<br>
the real deal — the proteinsthat they instruct the cells to make vary. <br>
<br>
“So you're going to get more of a response, that would be the hope, by<br>
giving them both because you cover more of the spike protein. You have<br>
different antigens [foreign substances that induce an immune response]<br>
that you see,” Gandhi says.<br>
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Keep in mind, too, that the J&J vaccine has never generated as strong an<br>
immune response as the mRNA vaccines, says Isaac Weisfuse, M.D., a<br>
medical epidemiologist and an adjunct professor at Cornell University<br>
Public Health. And “if you boost with something that historically has<br>
more efficacy,” you’re going to see a higher antibody level.<br>
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<a href="https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/mixing-matching-covid-vaccines.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/mixing-matching-covid-vaccines.html</a><br>
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As mentioned, this is outside of both my expertise and the medical<br>
subjects I've tried to study up on -- so, asked a question without <br>
opportunity to study up, I'm reduced to the same sort of quick targeted <br>
Web searching we-lot use to quickly assess things -- something I would <br>
not trust on such a subject that is both technical and suffused with<br>
speculation and bad information. In other words, caveat lector.<br>
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-- <br>
Cheers, "Public health is not private health. Epidemics are not personal<br>
Rick Moen diseases, and pandemics are not even national: They take place <br>
<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> across the shared immune system of human society."<br>
McQ! (4x80) -- Indi Samarajiva, <a href="https://t.co/bW2w059PYp" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://t.co/bW2w059PYp</a><br>
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