Dr. Fauci explains a major coronavirus vaccine mistake people are making

[Yoni Heisler]

• Dr. Fauci is urging people not to wait for Pfizer or Moderna's COVID vaccine if they can get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine first.
• Both Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines were found to be 95% effective at preventing a coronavirus infection in clinical trials.
• Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine is 66% effective at preventing serious COVID infections. The efficacy rate, however, jumps to 86% when it comes to preventing mild COVID infections.

With Johnson & Johnson receiving an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA over the weekend, the US now has three effective COVID-19 vaccines at its disposal, a scenario that would have seemed implausible even five months ago.

While Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines share a number of similarities -- both rely upon the same mRNA technology and both have an impressive efficacy rate of 95% -- Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 is markedly different. For starters, Johnson & Johnson's vaccine doesn't rely on mRNA technology and was instead based on the adenovirus, the virus responsible for the common cold. More jarring, though, is the fact that Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate in the range of 66%, markedly lower than Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine.

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