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(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will ship nearly 4 million doses of its newly authorized single-dose COVID-19 vaccine around the United States this week, but a top executive said on Monday that the next round of deliveries is contingent on regulatory approvals at a new plant.
The drugmaker expects to deliver another 16 million doses of the vaccine by the end of this month. But none is expected to go out next week.
“Four million doses are already on trucks to different places in the U.S.,” J&J Chief Scientific Officer Paul Stoffels said in an interview, noting that those doses came from a smaller plant already up and running.
Johnson & Johnson: The race to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines at record speed
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Johnson & Johnson: The race to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines at record speed
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