Coronavirus
Americans Are Expected to Start Receiving the J&J Coronavirus Vaccine Within 2 Days
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine began shipping out Monday morning, and Americans should begin getting the single-dose shot within the next day or two, the company’s CEO said.
The vaccine is “on trucks as we’re talking,” Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky said Monday on NBC’s “TODAY” show.
“We’re shipping 4 million literally as we speak,” Gorsky said. “Within the next 24 to 48 hours, Americans should start receiving shots in arms.”
He added that 100 million shots should be distributed by June and a billion by the end of the year. And a billion doses means a billion vaccinated people since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is given as a single dose. The other available vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, are given as two doses each, three to four weeks apart.
