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If you are living in the USA why not get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine?

This is the third comment I've had to reply to to point out that the J&J vaccine is also based on barely tested technology. Is this really not widely understood?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine

Apparently not.

It seems that many commentors in this thread believe that the time for questioning has passed regarding EUA vaccines with completely new mechanisms. If it goes wrong later, well don't go blaming any of them since it was all "at-will" and "your choice".

Many commenters and members of the public in general don't believe in questioning, full stop. Fauci says XYZ is good, so XYZ is good.

no, what I don't believe in is bad-faith questioning that is done primarily to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt. From what I can tell, Rand Paul is not operating in good faith, he's specifically saying what he's saying to reduce believe in Fauci's statements.

This Medcram video explains how J&J vaccine works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qT7wLxkvU#t=1m30s

They splice DNA to put in a virus and the end result is exactly the same as the mRNA vaccines - custom spliced RNA code running in your cells.

I see your point. Thanks for the Video.

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