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US: Johnson & Johnson Halts Shipment of 15 Million COVID Vaccine As Factory Workers Accidentally Conflated Ingredients Of 2 Different Vaccines
Swarajya Staff
Apr 01, 2021, 04:38 PM | Updated 04:38 PM IST
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Johnson & Johnson has paused shipment of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States after it came to light that workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two different vaccines for the virus accidentally conflated the ingredients resulting in contamination of as many as 15 million doses.
Workers at a Baltimore plant run by Emergent BioSolutions, a manufacturing partner to Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, reportedly mixed up the vaccines’ ingredients several weeks ago, New York Times reported.
Federal officials attributed the mistake to human error.
The new plant was enlisted by Federal government last year to produce both Johnson & Johnson’s and AstraZeneca’s vaccines.
In Jun 2020, Emergent BioSolutions won a $628 million deal with the U.S. government to scale production of targeted COVID-19 vaccine candidates to make "tens to hundreds of millions" of doses available through 2021
Emergent's Baltimore Bayview facility was constructed as part of a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) pandemic preparedness contract signed in 2012
The mistake is unlikely to disrupt the nationwide vaccination campaign in US as those doses were produced in the Netherlands.
Johnson & Johnson, whose one-dose vaccine has been widely credited with speeding up the national immunization program,
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