{"id":32789,"date":"2021-03-12T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32789"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:17:12","slug":"who-johnson-johnson-vaccine-gets-emergency-use-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32789","title":{"rendered":"WHO:\u00a0Johnson &#038; Johnson vaccine\u00a0gets emergency\u00a0use listing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday issued emergency use authorization for Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the one-shot dose to be used as part of the WHO-led international vaccine distribution effort.<\/p>\n<p>The green light from WHO, which comes a day after the European\u00a0Medical Agency approved the shot, means countries that receive\u00a0vaccine through\u00a0Covax will also get the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>J&amp;J&#8217;s vaccine provides fewer logistical hurdles than other shots given that it requires just one dose instead of two and does not need to be stored in ultra-cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery new, safe and effective tool against COVID-19 is another step closer to controlling the pandemic,\u201d WHO Director-General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qdshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmwpdwh_wdfdggvlvbdsdggjfjvj.html?a=&amp;b=37541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qdshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmwpdwh_wdfdggvlvbdsdggjfjvj.html?a%3D%26b%3D37541&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615679672870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEM4fxQNFMcOyUF-d4CdlHXQ8DJPw\">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement. \u201cBut the hope offered by these tools will not materialize unless they are made available to all people in all countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge governments and companies to live up to their commitments and to use all solutions at their disposal to ramp up production so that these tools become truly global public goods, available and affordable to all, and a shared solution to the global crisis,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) on&#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":[16,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789","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=32789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32790,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions\/32790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}