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skodonnell/iStock (WASHINGTON) -- The beleaguered biotech firm Emergent BioSolutions will face a congressional inquiry Wednesday, scrutinized for what investigators say are the "serious deficiencies" in their manufacturing that led to up to 15 million doses' worth of COVID-19 vaccine ingredients being compromised and disposed of because of cross-contamination. Top Emergent executives Fuad El-Hibri, the company's founder and executive chairman, and Robert Kramer, its chief executive officer, will appear on Capi...

1 of 40 A woman takes selfie as she receives the Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 17, 2021. Anupam Nath A heath worker in protective suit takes nasal swab sample of a man to test for COVID-19 in a slum area in Gauhati, Assam state, India, Monday, May 17, 2021. Anupam Nath People stand in queue to receive the Covishield vaccine against COVID-19 in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 17, 2021. Anupam Nath FILE - In this May 10, 2021, file photo, health workers and volunteers in personal protectiv...

© Getty Images Leaders at Emergent BioSolutions, the manufacturer whose Baltimore factory ruined millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses, are slated to testify in front of the House next week as part of an inquiry into the company.  The company’s CEO and President Robert Kramer and Executive Chairman Fuad El-Hibri agreed to appear before the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on May 19 to address questions about the up to 15 million destroyed doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.  The subcommittee, chaired by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), s...

Posted on May 11, 2021 | Views: 211 cwebb2021-05-11T00:23:40-07:00 by Niall Ferguson: A major lesson of Covid-19 is that there is no distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes… The Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but it is already clear that Lord Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, has won his 2017 bet with the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than Dec. 31, 2020.” Last year, according to Johns Hopkins University, the SARS-CoV-2 virus clai...