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If You Got the Johnson & Johnson Shot, SF General Will Give You a 'Supplemental' Pfizer or Moderna Shot - SFist

If You Got the Johnson & Johnson Shot, SF General Will Give You a 'Supplemental' Pfizer or Moderna Shot - SFist

If You Got the Johnson & Johnson Shot, SF General Will Give You a 'Supplemental' Pfizer or Moderna Shot - SFist
Aug 03, 2021 1 min, 28 secs

Starting later this week, if you received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, you're eligible to drop into the vaccination clinic at SF General and get a "supplemental" mRNA vaccine dose — but don't call it a booster.

The decision was made Monday by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and San Francisco's Department of Public Health (SFDPH), as ABC 7 reports, following multiple reports that the J&J vaccine may not be as effective in preventing infection from the Delta variant as mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

With the first variants of COVID-19 that were spreading last year, the J&J vaccine was seen as highly effective in preventing severe illness, but new data suggests that the mRNA vaccines provide strong protection against what appears to be a stronger and more infectious variant.

"[SFDPH] is currently accommodating special requests from individuals who have received the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson; J&J) viral vector COVID-19 vaccine and in many cases have consulted with their doctor and wish to receive a supplemental dose with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna)," the SFPDH says in a statement.

San Francisco appears to be unique so far in offering such supplemental shots, though anecdotally is seems that many people around the country who received the one-shot J&J vaccine have sought out their own supplemental vaccines out of concerns over the Delta variant.

In June, Reuters reported that some infectious disease experts who had themselves gotten the J&J vaccine had sought out their own supplemental "boosters," despite there not being published data to support the benefit of these.

Top image: A pharmacist volunteer prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a pop-up clinic at Western International High School on April 12, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan.

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