In Indonesia 95% of the health care workers have now been vaccinated, mostly with China's Sinovac. They now are doing "boosters" with Moderna for health workers which the government received. So far, 545 MD have died with 51 dying in June. In addition, 445 nurses, 42 pharmacists, 223 midwives and 25 lab workers have died.
As of July 17, 114 doctors have died since the beginning of the month of COVID-19 in the southeast Asian nation, more than double the number of those who died in June
www.voanews.com
Scuttlebutt has it that the one shot Johnson and Johnson may not be as effective as Moderna and Pfizer.
In April 92 people attended an outdoor wedding. All guests had to be fully vaccinated. Six people came down with COVID 19 - first two people to get sick after the wedding had come from India and had Covaxin BBV152 vaccine. The man died. (I bet he brought the Delta virus with him) The other four people who got sick were vaccinated with Moderna and/or Pfizer. One Pfizer recipient got sick enough to be hospitalized.
One attendee died. Another was hospitalized. While the Covid-19 vaccines do offer good protection, protection is not 100%.
www.forbes.com
April was when the Delta variant was starting to surge in India.
The vaccines are definitely all not equal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/countr...a-protection-from-chinese-vaccine-11626183948
Johnson and Johnson vaccine appears to be less effective against Delta
The study is just the latest bad news for New Brunswick-based Johnson & Johnson.
www.nj.com
If one is to believe articles found online, Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca are effective against the Delta variant. The book has not been finished as the final chapters aren't written yet. In the USA, we really don't have a choice of which vaccine we get. We can't exactly say, "I'm sorry, I don't want Moderna, I'll wait until you get Pfizer vaccine in."
The verdict is not in on how well Pfizer and Moderna will protect against Lambda and Gamma variants. We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. I will say that since we started wearing masks, my husband and I have not had any colds or the flu. We're going to be masking for the long haul.