How does Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine work?
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is considered a viral vector vaccine, meaning that it uses a harmless virus in order to deliver the genetic instructions for creating the virus’s surface spike protein.
After completing its main task, your body, your immune system, to be more precise, produces antibodies.
Sadly, people fell into a trap that has no escape for some. Some people think that Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine contains the virus itself… Well, that’s not true!
The vaccine does not contain the virus known as SARS-CoV-2, nor does it cause COVID-19.
However, while Moderna and Pfizer vaccines both have a higher efficacy rate than Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it should be highlighted the fact that the clinical trials of the latter vaccine took place in different contexts. Yet, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine is approximately 85% effective.
