Johnson & Johnson says it will have a Covid-19 vaccine in January or February.
"We will have the clinical data by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. So, I believe that, for emergency cases, we will be able to have the vaccine in January or February," stated Belgian physician Paul Stoffels, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer of Johnson & Johnson.
247 - Belgian physician Paul Stoffels, vice-president of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), stated this Friday, the 17th, that the first doses of a Covid-19 vaccine should be available between January and February 2021.
In an interview with the website NeofeedStoffels stated that the vaccine should urgently serve healthcare professionals who are on the front lines of the fight against the new coronavirus.
"We will have the clinical data by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. So, I believe that, for emergency cases, we will be able to have the vaccine in January or February," the executive stated.
“We are expanding our facilities to be able to produce tens of millions of high-quality vaccines monthly, but it is a work in progress,” Stoffels added, in his first interview with a Latin American media outlet.