FDA to authorize two batches of Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine made at troubled Baltimore plant
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Source: The Baltimore Sun
Federal regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will authorize the use of millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine manufactured at the troubled Baltimore facility temporarily shut down earlier this year due to critical production errors.
About 10 million doses have been okayed for use under the FDA’s emergency use authorization, a source familiar with the decision said. The source could not say how quickly those doses would be shipped out from Emergent BioSolution’s Baltimore plant. The person also said federal regulators have recommended that more doses produced at the facility would have to be thrown out but could not immediately say how many.
The New York Times reported Friday that 60 million doses would need to be destroyed due to potential contamination.
“It’s obviously very tragic that an additional 60 million will have to be discarded at this plant, at this time of a huge global shortage of vaccines,” said Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Read more: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-fda-authorize-johnson-johnson-vaccine-baltimore-20210611-vkce4jfsmjhjdgwf5bcjgcyhru-story.html
Full headline: FDA to authorize two batches of Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine made at troubled Baltimore plant; others likely to be tossed
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