A person is administered a dose of the Johnson& Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a city mass vaccination clinic at the Salvation Army at 55th and Market in West Philadelphia on Friday, March 26, 2021. - HEATHER KHALIFA/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
PHILADELPHIA — More than 800,000 Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware could go to waste this summer, as states across the country grapple with millions of time-sensitive doses of the less-popular vaccine. Thanks to an FDA determination last week that extended the vaccine’s shelf life, states now have until early August to use doses that would have expired in late June, a date by which most of the vials in this region would almost certainly have gone unused. But some states are still struggling to find enough takers for the vaccine, a task that falls t...
