Johnson & Johnson’s newly approved single-shot vaccine could be shipped to states as early as Monday – with more than 164,000 doses assigned to New York in the first round of delivery.
The Empire State is on track to get 164,800 doses of the vaccine this week, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As part of the transmission, New York City will receive 71,100 of the recordings, the agency said.
Johnson & Johnson has said it has 4 million doses of its vaccine ready for shipment immediately after it receives federal approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Saturday issued an emergency inoculation, the first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine available in the U.S. The single dose was found to be 85 percent protective against the most serious cases of COVID-19 in a large-scale global study.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices then approved guidelines on Sunday to allow the vaccine to be allowed to people 18 and older – the latest approval before its rollout, NPR reported.
Johnson & Johnson said the rollout of its vaccine could begin Monday, CBS reported.
The shot joins the country’s arsenal in the fight against the pandemic. Currently, the Moderna and Pfizer two-dose vaccines are used.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday that the state had already used up 89 percent of its supply of the first doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
“Our widespread and growing network of distribution locations is getting more and more guns statewide, but we’re constrained by the supply of available vaccines,” Cuomo said in a statement, echoing what state and local officials have been complaining about for weeks.
“The federal government has expanded the range of vaccines, but there is still a long way to go before we can reach much of the state population.”
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