Covid-19 roundup: UK au­tho­rizes J&J vac­cine; UNICEF buys 220 mil­lion dos­es of Russ­ian vac­cine

UK reg­u­la­tors on Fri­day au­tho­rized the J&J Covid-19 vac­cine for adults aged 18 years and old­er, more than two months af­ter the EU signed off on it and more than three months af­ter the FDA’s EUA.

The sin­gle-dose shot is the fourth Covid-19 vac­cine to be au­tho­rized in the UK. The move fol­lows clos­er scruti­ny of it by reg­u­la­tors due to rare but some­times fa­tal blood clots and low lev­els of platelets, but the US and EU agen­cies, and now the UK’s MHRA, agreed that the ben­e­fits of the vac­cine still out­weigh the risks.

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