Here's What We Know about Booster Shots for Moderna’s and J&J’s Covid 19 Vaccines.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-booster-shots-vaccines-moderna-johnson-fda-cdc
According to the article, Moderna and J&J booster shots will be available soon. This is necessary for people with these vaccines because over time the two vaccines have been fading/dying out. A meeting will happen on October 21st with the CDC to discuss when they can disperse these vaccines. Another thing about this article is it talks about how both vaccines are getting less effective over time with the new variants of CoronaVirus. The last thing the article talked about was were we going to need more booster shots in the future, and the article answered that no one knows just yet. They said this because they don’t know how long the immunity will last for the booster and overall normal vaccine.
The thing about this article is that the boosters haven’t been out just yet so no one can make assumptions about if it's a good thing to get or a bad thing. I say this because if it has negative effects I don’t think people would be getting it. Another thing is no one knows how long this booster shot would last and if it didn’t last long then we would have to get another. This is another reason why people didn’t get the Moderna and J&J because it was a guarantee required to get a booster in the future, which to people didn’t really make sense.
Overall I found this article interesting because I got to find out what was going on with the new booster shots before they even came out. Another thing I enjoyed about this article was it had a lot of evidence to back up all the questions that people had to ask. Overall in my opinion I didn’t see many negative things about this article because it was well written, evidence to support responses, talked about good and bad things that can happen once taken with the vaccine. That shows that this isn’t just a one sided article just talking about the good things and not the bad. Overall great article!!.
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October 21st, 2021
I had the pleasure of reading a great review of the article, “Here’s What We Know About Booster Shots for Modena’s and J&J’s Covid 19 Vaccines” by Erin Garcia de Jesus and Tina Hesman Saey. It was very well-written overall and was very engaging and interesting for a multitude of reasons. Firstly, the author’s very good at getting the point across in their writing. There aren’t any sentences in there for the sole reason of making the review longer or seem more well-worded; it’s concise. They say what they’d like to say, and that’s it. In addition, the writer is very clear with how they felt about the article, stating in the last paragraph that they really enjoyed reading it. This motivates the reader to do some research in that area of their own. Lastly, the review was very informative and shared many things with the reader that they wouldn’t have known before, fulfilling its purpose as an educational piece of writing.
While the review was very informative, there were some things that the author could improve on. Firstly, the piece was written in such a casual tone that I believe it took away some of the initial credibility of the author. It felt more like someone having a conversation with their friend than a formal review of a science article. For example, the author referred to the vaccine wearing off on the immune system as “dying out”, when they could have said that the vaccine had a declining protective effect. Also, they used multiple exclamation points at the end of the review which, while it makes the writing a little more playful, isn’t as professional. Their contentedness with the article definitely could have been conveyed through words instead of exciting punctuation. Lastly, if the author used more variety in word choice, the review as a whole would have been more interesting. For example, the word “overall” was used three times in one paragraph, when it could have been switched out for words or phrases such as “as a whole”, or “all in all”, or “altogether”, to transition to final ideas.
All in all, this review was pretty interesting, and the author is clearly well-informed on the topic of vaccines. Personally, I learned a lot about vaccines, their distribution, and their availability to different groups of people. This changes my perception of the vaccine and how everyone can get it. As long as the public has access to pieces of writing such as this article, more people are being informed, more people are being vaccinated, and, with that, more lives are being saved.
Jesús, Erin Garcia de, and Tina Hesman Saey. “Here's What We Know about Booster Shots for Moderna's and J&J's Covid-19 Vaccines.” Science News, 21 Oct. 2021, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-booster-shots-vaccines-moderna-johnson-fda-cdc.