CDC Panel Endorses Johnson & Johnson’s One-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine

(By Nell GreenfieldBoyce for NPR)

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given its blessing to a new one-shot vaccine for COVID-19.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 12-0, with one recusal, to recommend the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for people aged 18 and older. The move comes one day after the Food and Drug Administration authorized this vaccine for emergency use, making it the third COVID-19 vaccine available in the U.S.  Continue reading the article here…

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