Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 booster shots are able to generate high levels of antibodies and increase people’s immunity against the CCP virus, the company reported on Wednesday. The drugmaker’s latest findings are based on two Phase 2 studies conducted on people previously inoculated with its single-shot vaccine. Participants in the studies got a booster dose six to eight months after their initial shot of J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine. According to interim data released in a company statement on Aug. 25, the J&J booster vaccine generates a “rapid and robust” increase in spike-binding antibodies that are “nine-fold higher” than those seen four weeks after the primary dose. The drugmaker noted that an increase in binding antibody responses was found in participants aged between 18 and 55, as well as in those 65 years and older who had received a lower booster dose. Unlike neutralizing antibodies, which destroy the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, binding …
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