Enlarge / US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the federal government’s pandemic response, together with the just lately introduced partnership between Johnson & Johnson and Merck to supply extra Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) seems on on the White Home in Washington, DC on March 2, 2021. (credit score: Getty | Jim Watson)
With a White Home-brokered deal, vaccine big Merck has agreed to assist Johnson & Johnson increase its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing, which is woefully behind on its manufacturing schedule.
President Joe Biden introduced at this time that, with the brand new deal, the nation is on observe to have sufficient COVID-19 vaccine doses to vaccinate each grownup within the nation by the top of Could—two months forward of earlier plans.
“About three weeks in the past, we have been in a position to say that we’ll have sufficient vaccine provide for adults by the top of July,” the president mentioned in a day tackle. “And I’m happy to announce at this time, as a consequence of the stepped-up course of that I’ve ordered and simply outlined, this nation could have sufficient vaccine provide—I’ll say it once more—for each grownup in America by the top of Could. By the top of Could. That’s progress—vital progress.”
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