Johnson and Johnson has been approved by United States FDA, and is now their 3rd Vaccine after Moderna and Pfizer.
Is 1 shot of Johnson and Johnson better than 1 of 2 Pfizer/Moderna mRNA shots? Hmmmmmmmmm.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/27/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html
The new vaccine is a valuable weapon in the battle against Covid-19 and its roll out will be quick, officials say
CNN)Officials plan to act quickly after a third vaccine -- from Johnson & Johnson --
is poised to join the fight against the
Covid-19 pandemic, with 3.9 million doses expected to be available right away, a health official said Friday.
That amount could increase Covid-19 vaccination for states by 25% and would be delivered in as quickly as one or two days in the first week, the chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Lori Tremmel Freeman said.
A US Food and Drug Administration committee
Friday recommended that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine be authorized for emergency use.
The FDA is
expected to act on the recommendation quickly, meaning the vaccine may be available early next week.
Vaccine administration has already been increasing, with 2.2 million more vaccinations reported Friday than the day before and about 70.5 million doses given in total, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But with variants spreading and threatening to send once declining new case rates skyrocketing once more, officials hope to get ahead of the spread with faster inoculations
"We've had two vaccines and now it looks like we are going to get three and that means we can get more doses into arms and we can try to get this terrible pandemic behind us," Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
New coronavirus cases have begun to plateau after a steady decline, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned it could be the "beginning effects" of more transmissible variants having an impact.
"CDC has been sounding the alarm about the continued spread of variants in the United States," she said during a White House briefing on Friday.