{"id":31403,"date":"2021-02-04T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31403"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:38:20","slug":"johnson-johnson-requests-emergency-use-authorization-of-its-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31403","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &#038; Johnson requests emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some positive news on the vaccine front: Johnson &amp; Johnson on Thursday filed an application for emergency use authorization for its single-shot coronavirus vaccine, bringing it one step closer to helping the U.S. fight the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to convene a meeting of its vaccine advisory panel to review the evidence, which could happen in as little as two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement the company said it &#8220;expects to have product available to ship immediately following authorization,&#8221; but did not specify how much.<\/p>\n<p>It still expects to meet its commitment of supplying 100 million doses by the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration maintains it will be able to vaccinate 300 million people by the end of the summer just with supply from Pfizer and Moderna, so additional vaccines from J&amp;J will likely help speed the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some positive news on the vaccine&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31404,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions\/31404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}