US Allocates Significantly Lower Number Of J&J Vaccines To States For Next Week: Reuters

The U.S. government will allot around 85% less Johnson & Johnson's JNJ COVID-19 vaccines to states next week, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.
According to Reuters, about 785,500 J&J doses will be allocated, compared to 4.95 million doses this week.
Last week, the New York Times reported that workers at an Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore producing both AstraZeneca Plc AZN and J&J doses had mixed-up ingredients for the two vaccines, spoiling 15 million J&J doses.
However, the Baltimore facility has not yet been authorized by the FDA. A federal health official told Reuters last week that none of the plant's vaccine doses have been used in the vaccination campaigns so far.
According to the CDC data, California is the primary recipient of the J&J vaccine, followed by Texas and Florida.
California's vaccine allocation is down by about 88%, with the state set to receive 67,600 doses next week.
A California health official said that the number would go down further in the week starting April 18, with only 22,400 doses of the J&J vaccine allocated to the state.
J&J has reiterated that it expected to deliver 100 million doses to the U.S. government by the end of May.
Price Action: JNJ shares are down 0.26% at $163.19 during the market trading session on the last check Thursday.