Johnson & Johnson Shots to Stay Scarce in U.S. Until Plant Is Approved, White House Official Says

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/09/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases

Johnson & Johnson will allocate 86 percent fewer doses across the United States next week than are currently being allocated, according to C.D.C. data. Around 15 million doses at a Baltimore factory had been contaminated, delaying the plant’s authorization.

Supplies of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine will be extremely limited until federal regulators approve production at a Baltimore manufacturing plant with a pattern of quality-control lapses, the White House’s pandemic response coordinator said on Friday.

With allocations of the company’s vaccine set to plunge by 86 percent next week, governors across the country warned that the loss of supplies they had been counting on would set back their vaccination drives.

Federal officials said Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, the other two federally authorized vaccine manufacturers, could make up some of the shortfall. They also pointed out that some states were not currently using all the vaccine allocated to them.

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