Johnson & johnson, Medical device company

Washington, March 2 The United States started rolling out Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine to states, after the single-dose vaccine got green light from regulators to be administered to people 18 and older.Trucks carrying the vaccines are en route to states and sites that have been seeking more doses to curb the pandemic, Xinhua news agency reported.The shipments are expected to reach states and vaccination sites as early as Tuesday, according to the Joe Biden administration.Johnson & Johnson prepared four million doses for initial shipment, and expected to ship more than 20 million doses by March, according to the company."The Johnson & Johnson vaccine will speed up rollout in part because it does not require the same cold chain as the RNA vaccines," Stanley Perlman, professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa, told Xinhua.The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Saturday.A day later, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday recommended the vaccine to be administered for Americans 18 years of age and older.It is the third COVID-19 vaccine that has received the FDA's emergency use authorization in the country, following the first one developed by American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech, and the second one developed by American drugmaker Moderna.Unlike the two-shot dosing for the vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine only requires one shot. Meanwhile, it does not require ultra-cold storage.Over 96 million vaccine doses have been distributed across the United States as of Monday, and more than 76 million doses have been administered, CDC data show."Now, manufacturing and delivery are improving so both are less of an issue than they have been," Perlman told Xinhua."But vaccine hesitancy may be a problem," he noted.( With inputs from IANS )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

Johnson & JohnsonFOLLOW

Johnson & johnson, Latest News

Ottawa, March 6 Canada announced its approval of the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, ... ...

Canada's drug regulator on Friday (local time) approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine. ...

Canada on Friday announced its approval of the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. ...

New York, March 3 In a rare deal between competitors, pharmaceutical major Merck, known as MSD outside the US ... ...

The United States would have enough Covid-19 vaccine doses for every adult American by the end of May, said President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time). ...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a collaboration between Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and the federal government to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production. ...

US President Joe Biden is expected to announce that American drugmaker Merck will help in the manufacturing of a vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, CNN reported citing administration officials. ...

Washington, March 2 The United States started rolling out Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine to states, after the ... ...