“Late on Friday afternoon, when an FDA panel unanimously endorsed the J&J Covid vaccine finding that its benefits outweigh any risks, we wrote that the "FDA could now give the green light to the single-dose vaccine as early as Saturday, and it probably will." And just after 6 pm on Saturday, that's precisely what happened when the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot, non-mRNA Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use for people 18 and older beginning the rollout of millions of doses of a third effective vaccine that could reach Americans by early next week.”

“While it was so widely expected the announcement was merely a formality, just after 5pm on Friday the FDA Advisory Panel voted unanimously (22-0) to endorse the (one-shot, no mRNA) J&J vaccine, saying the benefits outweigh the risks, and recommended the agency grant emergency authorization, moving the nation's third vaccine one step closer to getting into Americans' arms.”

The is the advisory committee of the FDA.  FDA approval could come as early as tomorrow.

“The U.S. House version of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” – a $1.9 trillion emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus pandemic has an extra perk for federal workers: Enhanced paid time off if your child is enrolled in a school that isn’t back to full-time, in-classroom instruction.”

This would be funny if it was not so serious.

Also, note that people are commenting that there has been no State Of The Union address.  Please see the first comment for the link.

The Johnson and Johnson Advisory Committee (adcom) meets and possibly votes on Friday.  The New York Times suspicion is that it could be approved as early as Saturday.

“The chair of Texas’s power grid operator and four other board members have resigned in the wake of the widespread outrage resulting from the energy crisis that crippled the state’s electrical system.”

“The F-150's PowerBoost generator comes in two sizes, either a 2.4-kW generator or a 7.2-kW system. In the memo, Ford said 415 of these trucks are parked at dealerships that can be lent out to people and businesses in the community during this historic event."

“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers over a decision to withhold the state's nursing-home COVID-19 death toll out of fear that it would be "used against us" by the Trump Justice Department, according to the New York Post.”

“Germany’s held up as the world’s wind and solar capital. But, at the moment, the ‘green’ stuff can’t be purchased, at any price.  Its millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice and breathless, freezing weather is encouraging its 30,000 wind turbines to do absolutely nothing, at all.”

This might qualify as a Monday Funny.  We think this may be a move in the right direction.  What do you think?