Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine started shipping out Monday morning, and Americans would begin getting the single-dose shot within 24 to 48 hours, the business’s CEO stated.
The vaccine is “on trucks as we’re talking,” Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky said on NBC’s “TODAY.”
” We’re shipping 4 million actually as we speak,” Gorsky said. “Within the next 24 to 48 hours, Americans ought to begin receiving shots in arms.”
He added that 100 million shots should be distributed by June and a billion by the end of the year. And a billion dosages of the shot implies a billion vaccinated people because the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is provided as a single dose. The other available vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, are provided as 2 dosages each, three to 4 weeks apart.
The vaccine, which the Fda granted emergency usage authorization to on Saturday, is likewise the most convenient to store, as it can be kept in a fridge instead of a freezer.
While the vaccine is 66 percent reliable total, the shot works 85 percent of the time against severe disease, and it 100 percent reliable in avoiding hospitalization and death.
Medical trials were performed when cases were at their peak, and some were performed in South Africa and Brazil, where a dangerous variation has spread
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the nation now has three “highly effective vaccines” that provide significant defense from Covid-19 He advised Americans to take whichever one is offered to them when they end up being eligible.
Though the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be offered as a single dosage, the business is studying the impact of a 2nd dose.
Johnson & Johnson will likewise begin studying the safety of the vaccine in pregnant females and children above the age of 12, Gorsky said.
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