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J&J to Test COVID Vaccine on Babies, Pregnant Women and Immunocompromised

Summary by Cindy Olmstead
  • March 18, 2021

Pharmaceutical and medical device giant Johnson & Johnson is planning to begin testing babies, pregnant women and the immunocompromised with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The company made the announcement just one day after the U.S. FDA granted J&J’s subsidiary, Janssen Biotech, an emergency use authorization for its experimental COVID vaccine for persons age 18 and older. J&J will test children ages 12 to 18 first, and then quickly move on to the rest of the proposed...