Biden to announce deal for additional 100 million J&J vaccine doses

Biden will announce that he is directing his Health and Human Services team to procure the additional doses during a meeting today with executives from J&J and Merck, according to two administration officials…

The U.S. had already secured deals for enough vaccine doses for every adult even without the addition of the J & J vaccine as of last month when the U.S. finalized a deal with Pfizer and Moderna for 200 million more coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of July. But having the agreement in place with J&J for an additional 100 million doses could help serve as a backstop should Pfizer or Moderna run into manufacturing issues.