Man­u­fac­tur­ing brief­ing: Af­ter J&J-Emer­gent mix­up, few­er dos­es ex­pect­ed in US next week; Boehringer taps Ox­ford for vi­ral vec­tors

Amer­i­cans will see a sig­nif­i­cant drop in J&J Covid-19 vac­cines al­lo­cat­ed next week, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the CDC.

A re­port from Reuters not­ed that just 785,500 dos­es will be doled out, com­pared to 4.95 mil­lion this week.

The New York Times pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed that a mix­up at a Bal­ti­more Emer­gent fa­cil­i­ty re­sult­ed in 15 mil­lion fu­ture dos­es be­ing ru­ined. Cal­i­for­nia is the main re­cip­i­ent of the J&J vac­cine, fol­lowed by Texas and Flori­da, Reuters said.

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