The Food and Drug Administration announced that Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine meets the requirements of the emergency use authorization review process. Authorization could come on Friday.
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[Music] good evening and it’s great to have you with us here on this wednesday night and it’s great to begin with promising news for a change the news today on the johnson and johnson one shot vaccine the new 62-page report from the fda out today saying the one-shot vaccine is safe and effective emergency use authorization could now come within days those welcome numbers tonight the vaccine is 86 percent effective at preventing severe illness here in the u.s and 100 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths and at least 70 percent effective against asymptomatic spread when you have no symptoms when you don’t even know you have it if we can halt that we can reduce transmission all of this comes after pfizer said just yesterday that it will meet that deadline by the end of july 300 million doses and moderna saying 300 million doses by the end of july too that would be enough for all americans and all of that was without the news from johnson and johnson tonight so this evening what does this all mean for the timeline could vaccinations happen sooner even if it’s just weeks sooner and we’re tracking more fema vaccination sites opening just today this one in queens new york aiming to administer three thousand shots a day this one in houston tonight hoping for six thousand shots a day so this evening what you need to know about this new one-shot vaccine and how soon could we see it dr zha standing by and abc’s eva pilgrim leading us off tonight just days away from potential emergency use authorization the u.s is now likely on the verge of a third vaccine and this time a single dose and the news is promising new analysis today finding the johnson and johnson one dose vaccine safe and effective 86 percent effective for preventing severe illness in the u.s alone and 100 percent effective in preventing hospitalizations or deaths another key finding the report saying the single dose vaccine may also prevent some asymptomatic disease when you don’t even know you have it which means it could help reduce the spread of the virus preliminary analysis suggests that the vaccine provides a 74 percent protection against asymptomatic disease which is important because if you can prevent asymptomatic disease then you will also reduce transmission the fda saying the vaccine had the expected side effects like fever and fatigue but no reports of severe allergic reactions overall the vaccine provides very robust protection throughout the world including against the worrisome viral variants so what does this mean for the vaccine supply in the u.s johnson johnson says it could have three to four million doses sent out next week it could have 100 million doses by the summer pfizer and moderna already promised enough doses for all americans by the end of july so this newest vaccine could simply add to that supply the u.s could actually have a surplus enough for 400 million people by mid-summer the prospect of a potential third approved vaccine is very encouraging and will help to increase the overall vaccine supply which will allow more americans to get access to to evac to getting vaccinated sooner and tonight news for the thousands of so-called long-haulers covet victims who still have symptoms months later the national institutes of health has announced an official study into long-haulers after a recent study found about one-third of covet patients followed reported lingering symptoms as long as nine months after being sick an important part of this would be to design therapeutic approaches hopefully by medications that we already have we just need to know how to use them it is important that we stay focused on those long haulers in the meantime let’s get right to eva pilgrim back with us again tonight and eva we’ve all been a sort of learning as we go here and usually when the fda issues these reports on these new vaccines then the panel meets a day or two later and then the green light emergency use authorization usually follows so how soon are we thinking well david it’s not guaranteed but all signs are it’s a go as early as friday and the biden administration says as soon as it’s greenlighted it’s ready to go three to four million doses could be shipped out next week david eva pilgrim leading us off tonight eva thanks hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you’d like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don’t forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching
