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Johnson & Johnson, Merck partner to speed up COVID-19 vaccine rollout
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Johnson & Johnson has partnered with Merck, another pharmaceutical company, to aid with the production and distribution of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine. This vaccine will only require one dose and is the only vaccine to have been tested on international COVID-19 virus variants. (U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Last Updated March 5, 2021
President Joe Biden invoked a partnership between Johnson & Johnson and its pharmaceutical competitor, Merck, to expedite vaccine production and distribution.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has recently been approved by the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup and the Food and Drug Administration for use, according to a press release from California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Alongside the presidentially-mandated collaboration, this will pave the path to herd immunity, according to UC Berkeley public heal