Johnson & Johnson’s newly approved single-vaccine vaccine could be sent to states as early as Monday – with more than 164,000 doses awarded in the first round of delivery for New York.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Empire State will receive 164,800 doses of the vaccine this week.
As part of the shipment, New York City will receive 71,100 of the shots, the agency said.
Johnson & Johnson said it had 4 million doses of the vaccine ready to ship immediately after federal approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency permit for the vaccine on Saturday, which is the first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine available in the United States. The single dose is 85 percent protective against the most severe cases of COVID-19 in a massive worldwide study.
The CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practices on Sunday approved the admission of the vaccine to people aged 18 and older – the final approval before its entry into force, NPR reported.
Johnson & Johnson said the explosion of the vaccine could begin as early as Monday, CBS reported.
The shot will join the country’s arsenal to fight the pandemic. The two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer are currently in use.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the state has already used 89 percent of its first doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
“Our widespread and expanding network of distribution sites is getting more and more gunshots across the state, but we are limited by the supply of available vaccines,” Cuomo said in a statement, reflecting what government officials and local officials have complained about. for weeks.
“The federal government has expanded the supply of vaccines, but there is still a long way to go before we can reach a large portion of the state’s population.”
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