Unlike the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be administered in one dose. The FDA approved the third COVID-19 vaccine Saturday. LOUISVILLE, KY - MARCH 04: Janet Gerber, a Health Department employee, reveals the first shipment of Janssen COVID-19 vaccines at Louisville Metro Health and Wellness headquarters on Main Louisville, Kentucky. “The main focus of my discussions was to identify specific ways to speed the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility to Myanmar and to help mitigate a possible fourth wave of COVID-19,” Richardson said in a statement earlier this month. Richardson while there met with the nation’s military leaders about the Covid-19 situation and ways to help facilitate aid to the country. The deal comes after former ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson traveled to Myanmar on a private humanitarian mission. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. The State Department declined to comment. “In light of potential security risks to the populations of concern involved and delivery of doses, the buffer currently implements a confidentiality-as-default approach to information sharing on applications and related details,” Gavi, the organization co-leading the COVAX initiative, told POLITICO in a statement.
The shipment would mark the second for the humanitarian buffer by COVAX, which this week announced it would ship 1.6 million doses to Iran to help protect Afghan refugees. It is unclear how many doses COVAX would send to the border and which organizations would help distribute the shots on the ground. The details of the Johnson & Johnson shipment are still being finalized. “We need to ensure that people who cannot be reached by government vaccination campaigns aren’t left out of our efforts,” Blinken said during a Nov. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP) | Leah Millis/Pool via AP Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about modernizing American diplomacy during a speech at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct.
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