President Joe Biden said that the U.S. will have enough vaccine supply for all adults by the end of May, two months earlier than originally anticipated.
“We are now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” Biden said in a speech at the White House. That would cover about 300 million Americans.
“That’s progress,” Biden said.
Biden also said that Johnson & Johnson will collaborate with rival Merck to ramp up vaccine production, as the administration invokes the Defense Production Act to equip two Merck facilities. He compared it to a wartime collaboration to accelerate production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a single-dose inoculation that received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration this week. Two other vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, also have been given the greenlight, but they require two doses for maximum effectiveness.
“We are now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May,” Biden said in a speech at the White House. That would cover about 300 million Americans.
“That’s progress,” Biden said.
Biden also said that Johnson & Johnson will collaborate with rival Merck to ramp up vaccine production, as the administration invokes the Defense Production Act to equip two Merck facilities. He compared it to a wartime collaboration to accelerate production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a single-dose inoculation that received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration this week. Two other vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, also have been given the greenlight, but they require two doses for maximum effectiveness.
- 3/2/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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