<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:34px;font-size:28px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline">"More than 14 million people in the U.S. received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Today's data, taken from clinical trial participants, suggests that a booster may be beneficial.</p><div id="gmail-ad-unit-2" class="gmail-ad-unit" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline"></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline">A booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine generated a nine-fold increase in antibodies compared to the level seen 28 days after the initial dose, the company <a href="https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-announces-data-to-support-boosting-its-single-shot-covid-19-vaccine" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed" style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(2,108,162);text-decoration-line:none">reported in a statement</a>. The data is based on two small clinical trials conducted in the U.S. and in Europe, and the company submitted the results, which haven't yet been peer-reviewed, to the preprint database medRxiv. </p><div id="gmail-bordeaux-static-slot-5" style="margin:auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex"></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline">"We have established that a single shot of our COVID-19 vaccine generates strong and robust immune responses that are durable and persistent through eight months," Dr. Mathai Mammen, the Global Head of Janssen Research & Development at Johnson & Johnson, said in the statement. "With these new data, we also see that a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine further increases antibody responses among study participants who had previously received our vaccine."</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline">Mammen added that they will discuss potential strategies for booster doses with public health officials."</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/johnson-and-johnson-booster-increases-antibodies-covid.html">https://www.livescience.com/johnson-and-johnson-booster-increases-antibodies-covid.html</a> <br></p><div id="gmail-in-article" class="gmail-ad-unit" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;height:350px;width:602px;clear:both"><div id="gmail-bordeaux-static-slot-4" style="font-family:inherit;margin:auto auto 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:flex;clear:both;width:602px;height:350px"><div id="gmail-bordeaux-preemptive-ad-5" style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></h1></div>