J&J vaccine booster shot necessary after 6-month: Physicians 

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some physicians say individuals who have received Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine should get its boosting shot after six months as it is effective in reducing death risk from the respiratory virus.

Incepted three years back in China, Covid-19 pandemic spread havoc worldwide infecting millions of people.

The pandemic still uncontrollable resulted in the deaths of thousands of peoples in the world and caused humanitarian crisis.

Medical experts in some countries developed different vaccines, including J&J to curtail the pandemic; some vaccines are administered in one dose, some in two while some needed boosting shots.

People who had administered J&J vaccine had been asking question regarding the effectiveness of its single shot and needed information regarding its boosting shots.

Mirwais, a resident of Macrorayyan area of Kabul, said: “Other vaccines are administered in two doses between the gap of 40 days but about J&J we are not sure if the it has the boosting shot or not?”

He said if another dose was needed, was it necessary to get it from the J&J family or what other type of vaccine shall be administered.

Meanwhile, Ahmad Shah, the resident of Qala-i-Zaman Khan area of Kabul, said he was also information regarding the boosting shot of J&J, because he had received its first dose six months earlier.

Dr. Hashmatullah Faizi, a senior official of the Afghan-Japan Covid-19 Hospital in Kabul, said the other vaccines were administered in two doses with the gap of 40 days, but Johnson vaccine was given in one dose for six months.

He said J&J vaccine helped prevent an individual from Covid-19 for a period do six months.

He recommended that those who received J&J vaccine six months ago, must get the next dose of any type of vaccine again.

Dr. Sharafat Zaman, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said those who received J&J vaccine six months ago required its booster shot again.

He added: “So far, no incidents of side effects of the vaccine have been recorded, we could not say Covid-19 vaccine has side effects that caused death or not.”

He emphasized that every person should renew his vaccination after six months.

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