Shares of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) surged on news of trial data results in relation to the development of a single shot vaccine. However, the company is expecting it’s vaccine to be at least 60% effective which is far lower than industry partners Pfizer (PFE) and Moderna (MRNA) which both now have an effectiveness of 95%.
Johnson & Johnson is several weeks behind competitors Moderna and Pfizer, with the latter announcing Wednesday that it would be filing for emergency use authorization “within days.” However, both Moderna and Pfizer are built on a two-dose model, whereas Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ-78436735 requires a single jab.
However, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine had snafus of its own, including a pause in the phase 3 trial that launched in late September due to a serious medical event in one of its participants. The company resumed trials in October after an independent safety review. An update said the company had no evidence that the vaccine caused the event.
In a press release posted on Sunday, Johnson & Johnson announced that it would begin testing a two-dose regimen in the ENSEMBLE 2 trial, which would require 30,000 participants and be run parallel to ENSEMBLE.
On Wednesday, the company’s CEO, Alex Gorsky, said during the Washington Economic Club event that until vaccines and therapeutics can be widely distributed, the public would have to rely on public health measures to control the spread of coronavirus, especially as people battle restriction fatigue and head back indoors.
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