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Johnson & Johnson is Taking Over the Baltimore Plant That Ruined 15M Coronavirus Vaccine Doses

After a mistake at a Baltimore, Maryland, manufacturing plant last week ruined millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, the Biden administration is putting Johnson & Johnson in charge of the plant, it announced Saturday.

The plant, which belongs to manufacturing contractor Emergent BioSolutions, was previously producing two varieties of Covid-19 vaccine, of which only the Johnson & Johnson shot was approved for emergency use in the United States. Now, Johnson & Johnson will be the sole vaccine produced at the facility as the company takes control, reported the New York Times on Saturday.

The Johnson & Johnson shot, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration in late February, is a single-shot vaccine, unlike the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that require two doses to be fully effective, and it only requires a refrigerator, rather than a freezer, to store.

It’s also extremely effective — results from clinical trials suggest it prevents about 85 percent of “severe and critical cases of Covid-19” and 100 percent of deaths and hospitalizations after four weeks — despite some early concerns about how the Johnson & Johnson shot stacks up against the Pfizer and Moderna shots.

Read the source article at Vox – Understand the News

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