Some 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses after an incident at a production plant in Maryland. It鈥檚 unclear if that will affect Ohio鈥檚 plans to continue its vaccine rollout, now that everyone over 16-years-old is eligible to get a shot.
Gov. Mike DeWine said the state will be regularly evaluating its distribution plans for the vaccine shipments that arrive by each Tuesday at noon.
鈥淎s we continue to get additional vaccinations, we will make the decision every single week about where we deploy those. It will still be based primarily on population," DeWine said in a press conference Thursday.
The state is leaning heavily on the single-shot J&J vaccine to use on and at mass vaccination clinics in major cities.
These ruined doses could mean the state will have fewer J&J shots.
The Ohio Department of Health said in a statement that Ohio is still getting around 172,000 J&J doses by April 6. Once there鈥檚 more information about future weeks, the statement continues, 鈥渨e will have a better idea of any direct impacts there may be on the state鈥檚 vaccination plans.鈥�
