The Johnson & Johnson campus in Irvine, Calif.Credit.Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
One day after federal regulators authorized Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, senior Biden administration officials warned Sunday that the supply of the new vaccine would be highly uneven for the next month.
In an effort to lower expectations that the authorization of a third Covid vaccine will mean a steady new stream of doses, the officials said that the company will deliver 3.9 million shots this week but none the week after. The officials were speaking in an organized briefing with reporters but refused to be quoted by name.
More than a week after a powerful winter storm barreled through Texas, some experts say that the conditions which forced hundreds of people across the state to huddle together in homes, cars and shelters to seek warmth could lead to an increase in coronavirus cases. The devastating storm almost collapsed the state’s power grid, leaving millions of people in dark and unheated homes during some of the most frigid temperatures recorded in the.