Johnson & Johnson’s recently approved single-shot vaccine could be shipped to the states as early as Monday, with more than 164,000 doses allocated for New York in the first round of births.
According to the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Empire State is getting 164,800 doses of vaccine this week.
As part of the shipment, New York City will receive 71,100 shots, the agency said.
Johnson & Johnson has said it has 4 million doses of its vaccine ready to ship immediately after it gets federal approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization Saturday inoculation, which will be the first COVID-19 vaccine of a dose available in the U.S. The single dose was found to be 85% protective in the most severe cases of COVID-19 in a massive global study.
The CDC Advisory Committee on CDC Immunization Practices on Sunday approved guidelines to allow the administration of the vaccine to people over the age of 18, the final settlement before release, NPR reported.
Johnson & Johnson said the launch of its vaccine could begin as soon as Monday, according to CBS.
The shot will join the country’s arsenal to fight the pandemic. Moderna and Pfizer two-dose vaccines are currently used.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the state had already consumed 89 percent of the supply of the first doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
“Our wide and extensive network of distribution sites is receiving more and more gunfire across the state, but we are limited by the supply of available vaccines,” Cuomo said in a statement, echoing what has been said. complained state and local officials. for weeks.
“The federal government has expanded the supply of vaccines, but there is still a long way to go until it reaches a large portion of the state’s population.”
With mail cables