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CDC recommends Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, enabling inoculations to start this week

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CDC recommends Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, enabling inoculations to start this week
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending the nation’s third coronavirus vaccine for people 18 and older, paving the way for the easier-to-use, one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be administered starting this week.

The action follows a unanimous vote Sunday by the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, which strongly endorsed the vaccine’s effectiveness in completely protecting against hospitalization and death. The vaccine is the first one authorized in the United States that doesn’t need to be kept frozen or administered twice.

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