An advisory panel will review the argument for second Johnson & Johnson doses Friday.
Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine booster shot appears to offer benefits, the Food and Drug Administration said in an analysis released Wednesday, but it questioned the sensitivity of a test the company used in its trials, and the regulator said it did not have time to verify much of the data that J&J submitted...
The authors raised concerns that a test J&J used to measure immune responses in trial participants who received a booster after six months may not have beenand could have inflated a detected increase in immune response, as well as noting that there were only 17 study subjects in that trial.
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