Biden announces plans to purchase 100M more Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine doses
President Joe Biden on Wednesday directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely U.S. surplus of doses later this year when much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages.
Even before Wednesday s order, the U.S. was to have enough approved vaccine delivered by mid-May to cover every adult and enough for 400 million people total by the end of July. Enough doses to cover 200 million more people is on order should vaccines from AstraZeneca and Novavax receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The new J&J doses, which would cover another 100 million people, are expected to be delivered in the latter half of the year.
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Residents report on adherence to public health recommendations like social distancing, mask wearing and handwashing
Katherine Ognyanova, an assistant professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s School of Communication and Information, is the lead author of the new report.
New Jerseyans are relaxing some of their adherence to social distancing and public health recommendations, according to a new survey by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Northeastern, Harvard and Northwestern universities.
The data, published by The COVID States Project, indicates that as COVID-19 case numbers decreased in 2021, behaviors like going to work, going to the gym, taking mass transit, handwashing or being in a room with people outside the home, relaxed.
Governor Phil Murphy toured a community based COVID-19 vaccine site at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Cathedral in Paterson Tuesday, this as a new survey finds New Jersey residents are relaxing social distancing measures as cases decline.