The U.S.’s 10-day pause on Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines created a surplus of millions of shots that are set to expire in June, and there are few practical solutions to distributing them in time to foreign countries
Some hospitals and states say that vaccines from Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE , as well as Moderna Inc., are due to expire later this summer, but the stockpiles so far are largely of J&J doses. Pfizer’s vaccine expires six months after manufacture. Moderna’s vaccine can remain frozen for up to six months, during which it can be refrigerated for one month.
Philadelphia has 42,000 J&J doses set to expire, most of which came from a Federal Emergency Management Agency clinic at the city’s convention center a few days before the pause, a city spokesman said. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arkansas are among states that report having thousands of J&J doses set to expire this month and have been unable to redistribute them.
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