“Johnson & Johnson chief executive Alex Gorsky said the company’s new partnership with Merck to produce Covid-19 vaccines could exceed a goal to produce 100 million doses by June for the U.S.
““That’s our goal,” Gorsky told the Washington Post’s David Ignatius in a live interview Wednesday morning regarding the company’s plan to accelerate production with its new partner Merck of its one-shot Janssen Covid-19 vaccine, which was granted emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the weekend.
““Our engineers and our scientists are working hand in hand with the Merck supply chain as we speak to make this possible,” Gorsky said. “We’re very confident that… in the coming months we’ll be able to accelerate.””
Read more at Forbes
