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    U.S. J&J Covid vaccine doses will be sent to Thailand-Myanmar border



    By Erin Banco (Politico)
    Thu, November 18, 2021, 2:05 AM

    Millions of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine doses will be directed to the border of Thailand and Myanmar in December as part of the Biden administration’s pledge to donate doses to conflict zones, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
    The doses will be sent through a vaccine-sharing program overseen by COVAX, the world’s vaccine distributor, that specifically facilitates immunizations for vulnerable individuals experiencing humanitarian emergencies because of conflict or living in areas inaccessible to governments because they are controlled by non-state armed groups.

    Many of the Johnson & Johnson doses will go to individuals in refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Thousands more people fled to the region earlier this year after a military coup in Myanmar in February.
    Millions of Johnson & Johnson doses have been sitting in warehouses since Emergent BioSolutions, a contract manufacturer, accidentally botched 15 million doses of the shot by mixing it with the AstraZeneca drug substance. Over the last several months, the Food and Drug Administration has investigated the batches and cleared them for use.

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week announced that the U.S. would offer the Johnson & Johnson doses to the humanitarian buffer. In a meeting with foreign ministers, Blinken urged other countries to ramp up their international vaccine donations to low- and middle-income countries and facilitate the shipment of vaccines to harder-to-reach regions throughout the world.

    “We need to ensure that people who cannot be reached by government vaccination campaigns aren’t left out of our efforts,” Blinken said during a Nov. 10 press conference. “They need to be protected, too.”

    The details of the Johnson & Johnson shipment are still being finalized. It is unclear how many doses COVAX would send to the border and which organizations would help distribute the shots on the ground. The shipment would mark the second for the humanitarian buffer by COVAX, which this week announced it would ship 1.6 million doses to Iran to help protect Afghan refugees.

    “In light of potential security risks to the populations of concern involved and delivery of doses, the buffer currently implements a confidentiality-as-default approach to information sharing on applications and related details,” Gavi, the organization co-leading the COVAX initiative, told POLITICO in a statement. The State Department declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment...

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