Huntington Administers 500 J&J Vaccines

Multiple people said they were drawn to Crestview’s gymnasium not just to get vaccinated, but for the opportunity to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine specifically.

Johnson vaccine in particular.

The crestview middle school gymnasium is used to seeing shots on the court.today, 500 covid-19 vaccine shots went into arms instead.huntington county health officer matt pflieger says this is the most people they've vaccinated in one day, and he's had no problem finding eligible recipients.mp: "so we launched the schedule, and in less than 12 hours, that schedule was completely filled."standup: multiple people said they were drawn to crestview's gymnasium not just to get vaccinated, but for the opportunity to get the johnson & johnson vaccine specifically.ken nelson: "my education that i was able to follow and make a decision was johnson and johnson was the right one.

And this came up, and i couldn't move fast enough."lori ingle had the option of getting a different vaccine as 3 well, but the j&j single shot will get her fully vaccinated before her husband's upcoming surgery.li: "he'll have no immune system after his surgery, and so we wanted to make sure that i had less risk of getting covid because of that.

So knowing that i'm done, that feels really good.

I don't have to wait for several weeks to get that second shot and wait until then to know that i'm immune."

And the sooner they're immune, the sooner they can get back to kn: tincaps baseball... li: spending time with family... kn: buffets being open... li: traveling.

While the j&j vaccine's trials showed less effectiveness in preventing milder cases than its two-shot counterparts, all three vaccine options prevent severe infections.pflieger says his focus is on getting as many people vaccinated as possible, with whichever dose is available."so in my mind, a vaccine is a vaccine.

It's going to help prevent disease.

It's going to lower hospitalizations and deaths.

The side effects for both, all three of those vaccines is very low and the benefit is very high.

So just get a shot."

Flieger says the 500 j&j doses today came from the state, but they'll be back to using the moderna vaccine next week.

In markle, i'm drew frey, fox 55 news.