White House Abandons Push for Neera Tanden as Top Budget Official Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. Important progress.” The arrangement, first reported by The Washington Post, comes just days after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Under the new agreement, Merck will dedicate two of its facilities to production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the third to receive emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration — following Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. And the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has some advantages: It requires only one shot, and studies show it may curb spread of the virus.

Source: International New York Times March 02, 2021 13:30 UTC