Johnson & Johnson said on Monday that its newly approved single-dose COVID-19 vaccine had already been loaded onto trucks – and could be in the arms of Americans within two days.
Alex Gorski, CEO of J&J, said, “We’re really talking on the truck Told NBC’s “Today” show.
“We think that within the next 24 to 48 hours, Americans should start acquiring weapons.”
Gorski said the drugmaker will immediately ship 4 million doses to the states, but will accelerate its supply over the next year.
“We are committed to do 100 million by June of this year, and one billion by the end of 2021” Gorski said.
The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday granted emergency authorization for the shot, which would be the first one-dose COVID-19 vaccine available in the US.
The vaccine was shown to be 66 percent effective at preventing disease in a large-scale trial, while the efficacy rates of rivals Modern and Pfizer were more than 90 percent.
But Gorski said that Americans “should have a lot of confidence and belief that they are receiving a very safe and effective, one-shot vaccine.”
“When you look at the numbers around the vaccine, the numbers that matter most are that it works against critical illness 85 percent of the time and it kept all patients out of the hospital and dying. Also, it is against these new and really challenging variants, ”said Gorski.
He also said that the study was done at a time worldwide when the virus was more prevalent than other vaccine tests.
He said, “It is really important to remember about this vaccine that when we conducted our clinical trials in October of 2020, in January of 2021, it was during that time that the incidence rate of the virus was actually Was at its peak, ”he said.
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