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Los Angeles Times: U.S. pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be felt the most in poor countries

April 17, 2021

From the article:

If the distribution of adenovirus-based vaccines is hindered, the repercussions could reverberate around the world for years to come.

“We’ll have to wait and see what the FDA finds, of course, but it would be a real shame,” said Amanda Glassman, a senior fellow and global health expert at the Center for Global Development, a nonprofit think tank in Washington.

“When you sit in parts of the U.S. and the U.K., you get the feeling that this pandemic is coming to an end,” she said. “That’s not the global picture. We cannot act like this is going away anytime soon.”