US signs $1bn deal for 100-million doses of J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate

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This is J&J's first deal to supply its investigational vaccine to a country

A Johnson & Johnson building in Irvine, California, the US. Picture: REUTERS/MIKE BLAKE

The latest contract is priced at roughly $10 per vaccine dose produced by J&J, or about $14.50 per dose, including a previous $456m the US government promised to J&J for vaccine development in March J&J is studying both one and two-dose regimens of its vaccine. Pfizer and BioNTech's candidate would require two doses per person treated.

 

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