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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/factory-mix-up-spoils-15-million-doses-of-jj-covid-vaccine/ [arstechnica.com]

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 [politico.com] with those for a different coronavirus vaccine. Emergent BioSolutions is also a manufacturing partner of AstraZeneca [nytimes.com], according to The New York Times, which first reported the problem.

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