Updated on March 4, 2021 at 1:03 pm
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The Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID vaccine was given out for the first time in Massachusetts Thursday at Tufts Medical Center.
Both Tufts and Boston Medical Center received their initial supply of the single-dose vaccine - approximately 2,000 each - on Tuesday. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez of Tufts Medical Center said the new vaccine is part of the larger effort to control the pandemic.
The coronavirus is not going to disappear, but it will stay with us probably for a long time (and) we want to convert it into a common cold, she said. The way we can do that is to make sure everyone gets vaccinated with any of the vaccines approved by the federal government.
Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, the chief medical officer at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, said the U.S. has come a long way in one year, since March of 2020. There is no way that I would have been able to say with a straight face one year ago that on March 1, 2021, we would have not one, not two, but three very effective vaccines against COVID-19, the doctor said.
Kopin said the vaccines from Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer all offer strong protection against the virus, and people shouldn t get caught up in the numbers. Sixty-six percent, 85 percent, 95 percent, that’s not what’s important, he said.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adult Americans by the end of May, two months.
Tufts Medical Center and Boston Medical Center said they have received their initial supply of doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine. The two hospitals said they received 2,000 doses apiece of the vaccine on Tuesday. Tufts said it expects to begin administering the vaccine as soon as Thursday, while Boston Medical Center said only that it will begin.
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