Factory mix-up spoils 15 million doses of J&J COVID vaccine:
About 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine were ruined, and future vaccine shipments will be delayed. This all follows a mix-up at a manufacturing facility in Baltimore, according to multiple media reports.
Johnson & Johnson had partnered with Emergent BioSolutions to manufacture the active ingredient of its vaccine. But according to two US officials who spoke with Politico, workers at the West Baltimore facility mixed up the ingredients in Johnson & Johnson's vaccine with those for a different coronavirus vaccine. Emergent BioSolutions is also a manufacturing partner of AstraZeneca, according to The New York Times, which first reported the problem.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Friday April 02 2021, @07:25PM (3 children)
Did they or didn't they add to many of Gates mindcontrolling nano-bots?
(Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Friday April 02 2021, @07:35PM (2 children)
They added the right amount, but needed to add a critical patch before sending them out, so as everyone knows, you'll have to wait until at least Tuesday.
They're still working on the airborne Group Policy updating mechanism. *That*'s when you really have to worry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @08:22PM
> *That*'s when you really have to worry.
Yes but 5G speeds will be off the chart.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 02 2021, @09:30PM
In the interest of full disclosure, after noticing "Bill Gates" and "vaccine nanochip", just dig into the recesses of everything Microsoft has foisted on the computing industry through the years and the responses pretty much write themselves.
So, do recall the punctuated (to be charitable about it) events they provided us through our careers, go in with an attitude that Bill Gates shouldn't walk away from that legacy scot-free, and start your search engines, folks. It's the least we can do for him.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @07:26PM (6 children)
They were stupid enough to take Trippin' Joe's unwanted AstraZeneca, so they'll probably be happy with this stuff.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @07:28PM (5 children)
AstraZeneca: Only one fatal brain blood clot per 100,000 doses... those odds aren't too bad, eh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @12:00AM
All in the age range of the most virulent phase of SJW.
And they still don't like it?
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday April 03 2021, @06:47AM (3 children)
I for one always knew that something would be horribly wrong with some of the vaccines, and that the rollout would be about as smooth as a popcorn ceiling and twice as flaky, and that it would be an effective deterrent from people (especially fruitcakes) getting the vaccine, and that as a result, we can't have nice things and EBOLAIDS will haunt us for a long time to come.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @01:29PM (2 children)
Yup. Exactly.
And the part that far too many folks don't get is that it is impossible to stick 300 million people without some things going horribly wrong, just by pure random chance.
Stick 300 million people and some random number of them will die shortly thereafter. Another random number will have X Y or Z issue occur. All without any of those outcomes having been the shot's fault at all. The hard part about this is separating the "things that occurred because of the shot" from "things that occurred because of random chance, and would have occurred even without the shot".
We want to know the "because of" occurrences. But the news will report on all the random happenstance occurrences, and what will the public think they believe, why, that which they have been told by the news to believe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @05:19PM
Lack of evidence is proof they're covering something up.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @08:43PM
When 300 million people are inoculated with a vaccine and then thirty people develop rare brain clots that normally only happens to one in a hundred thousand people (that's so small to be almost zero likelihood) then you have to ask yourself if it's pure random chance or something else. Like the vaccine.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 02 2021, @07:30PM (14 children)
not
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @07:37PM (11 children)
What is going on in NZ??? Their hospitals are overrun with the most patients ever for some reason:
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=48505¬e=&title=NZ+hospitals+in+crisis+after+%27biggest+January%2C+February+on+record%27 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 02 2021, @07:58PM (10 children)
That headline initially made me think that COVID was flaring up, and causing serious problems. Apparently, not so.
COVID is maybe contributing to a systemic problem caused by lack of infrastructure, and lack of personnel. It has apparently taken years of failure to plan ahead for things to come to a head.
Mention is made of some wards, newly built, that stand empty, because they don't have the staff to put in those wards. There is also mention of a need to streamline the importation of doctors from other nations.
Huge fiasco, not directly related to COVID.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @08:45PM (5 children)
It also says they are seeing the most patients ever and expect it to get worse as winter approaches, but does not say for what?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday April 03 2021, @01:41AM (4 children)
usually flu season.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @02:48AM
But they have locked down borders, and still flu season is so bad hositals are more overrun than ever before? Where did that flu come from?
Something odd is going on in NZ.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @03:33AM (2 children)
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:55AM (1 child)
The prophylactic measures that could be used would indeed be useful, but they've solved the problem by not letting the disease get into the community in the first place, rather than slowing down its spread within the community.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @12:24PM
The problem was overrun hospitals, so they apparently did not solve the problem.
(Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Friday April 02 2021, @09:49PM (1 child)
And when you have the staff and infrastructure, there are sometimes other considerations [youtu.be].
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday April 02 2021, @11:33PM
Not knowing when this first aired, I could only guess how far out 1994 was based on his reaction. According to Wiki, the series ended in 1984 so it was at least 10 years away.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:13AM (1 child)
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:14AM
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anti-aristarchus on Friday April 02 2021, @10:17PM
Runaway:
World (other wise known as, "reality"):
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @12:02AM
You'll die faithless, we already know it, but thanks for the reminder.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 02 2021, @08:07PM
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/company-involved-discarded-jj-covid-vaccines-history-of-violations-2021-4 [businessinsider.co.za]
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @08:13PM (5 children)
Unfortunately they hired some trump supporter and he messed up. This is why you don't let in some white guy just to mix things up.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @10:21PM (2 children)
If we took "trump supporter and he" and changed to "blue haired wokie and she"
Magically it would go from -1 flamebait to +2 insightful and +3 funny
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @12:09AM (1 child)
Should've mentioned Warp Speed, $628M paid to Emergent BioSolutions [hhs.gov] by Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @02:58AM
Nah, his barrage of intentionally bad advice to make his own image look better at the cost of American lives takes precedence. Saying he fucked up a little less than he could have is not exactly a good thing bubbo.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @01:35PM (1 child)
Sad. We are now over two months past Trump leaving office, and we have an event that just occurred, now, two months after Trump left and Biden took over, and yet, those with TDS are still deranged and it is all still "Trump's fault".
How about blaming Biden? He should have known Trump had messed everything up, hell, he ran his entire campaign on "Trump has messed everything up". So therefore, Biden should have been much more carefully watching and checking and therefore should have prevented this screwup from happening.
If only Biden had been more on the ball, and more watchful, and more careful, and more caring (all what he campaigned upon), then he would have been able to stop this mixup from happening.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @05:25PM
I mean, Obama should have known Trump would be such a colossal fuck up and prepared the country for it. I blame him too.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Snotnose on Friday April 02 2021, @08:50PM (2 children)
are enjoying a 3 day weekend due to Easter.
Actually, I first heard about this 2-3 days ago, it was one of those "this is gonna suck" a week ago followed by "yeah, this sucks" yesterday stories.
FFS, did you thing I came up with Lucy and Ethel myself? That was the Fark headline 2 days ago on this fustercluck.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @09:06PM
Fark? Are you sure it was 2 days ago and not 20 years ago? You're not the owner of a silver delorean are you?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 02 2021, @10:12PM
I bet Johnson & Johnson took their past experience in the pharmaceutical sector [youtu.be] on their resume at face value and didn't check the references too closely.
(Score: 3, Touché) by corey on Friday April 02 2021, @09:42PM (3 children)
... like they agreed to early last year, I’d have some sympathy. But no.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @09:45PM (2 children)
Did you plan on cooking your own? Bathtub-vaccine? Next to your meth?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @04:04AM (1 child)
The idea was that smaller labs without access to any of the patented formulas could make it themselves. This would greatly speed up production especially in poorer countries that are otherwise at risk of becoming breeding grounds for the virus. This is very important as the virus is already mutating. AstraZenica was supposed to have been opened up like this but the Gates Foundation objected.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @05:27PM
Give a man a vaccine and he'll be safe from that disease. Teach a man to make a vaccine and he'll... well he'll... look, it's complicated.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 02 2021, @10:02PM (1 child)
Women And Minorities Affected Most
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @01:23AM
Aren't they always? It's like God hates them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @02:43AM
Another delay! Some bone-headed LEA-tard's sting operation obviously isn't going according to plan.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday April 03 2021, @06:40AM
It could have been mixed up with the sperm bank supply. [imgur.com].
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Saturday April 03 2021, @09:51AM
I mean it's kinda standard procedure for them.