Fifteen million doses of the J&J shot would have been enough to fully vaccinate 15 million Americans. J&J blamed the mix-up on human error and says that 11 million doses that shipped this week were not affected. Impressively, the firm made it just under the wire to meet its goal of providing the U.S. with 20 million doses of its vaccine by the end of March by shipping a massive 11 million doses this week. Moderna will soon be able to ramp up its shipments of vaccine doses by filling each vial with 15 doses, and Pfizer is currently ahead of its production schedule. J&J said it still expects to deliver more than 1 billion vaccine doses globally by the end of the year.

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2021 21:44 UTC