Not to be pedantic, but your headline is kinda fake news. Only one of them will be chosen if they work. Either we get 38 million doses of the vaccine from Johnson and Johnson or we get 76 million doses from the vaccine from Novavax. And the reason we "ordered" 76 million doses of the Novavax vaccine is because it requires two doses to get immunization.
Not to be pedantic, but your headline is kinda fake news. Only one of them will be chosen if they work. Either we get 38 million doses of the vaccine from Johnson and Johnson or we get 76 million doses from the vaccine from Novavax. And the reason we "ordered" 76 million doses of the Novavax vaccine is because it requires two doses to get immunization.