President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday his plan to order an additional 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
The New York Times reports that Biden will make the announcement during his meeting with Johnson & Johnson and Merck executives at the White House in the afternoon.
Administration officials told the Times that the doses are expected to be distributed in the second half of the year.
Last week, Biden announced there would be enough vaccine supply, which is also being produced by Merck and Pfizer, for every adult in the country by the end of May. Merck and Pfizer’s vaccines require two shots.
More than 93.5 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in the U.S. and 9.7 percent of the population is fully vaccinated as of Wednesday morning, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Cool.
Presidential.
Uncle Joe is on the job.
Every news item about Biden just reminds me how happy I am that there is an adult back at the helm in the White House. Joe has the experience, the temperament and the desire to serve the American people that are essential to solve problems right now. And he has a competent team on board for this. Every day, another sigh of relief that things are getting better.
i just keep thinking how lucky we are that trump didn’t win. like, on so many fronts, but can you imagine how chaotic and corrupt this vaccine roll out would have been? i don’t know that we can truly understand how big of a bullet we dodged here. there’s a lot of work to do to remain dodged, but i feel like biden showing competence and making lots of peoples’ lives better could go a long way toward that.