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CEO of vaccine maker sold $10 million in stock before company ruined Johnson & Johnson doses By Jon Swaine The Washington Post,Updated April 26, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend The Emergent BioSolutions plant in Baltimore, Maryland.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images via Bloomberg The stock price of government contractor Emergent BioSolutions has fallen sharply since the disclosure at the end of March that production problems at the firm’s plant in Baltimore had ruined 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. Since then, AstraZeneca moved production of its own vacci...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have found serious flaws at the Baltimore plant that had to throw out up to 15 million possibly contaminated doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine — casting doubt on further production in the United States of a vaccine that the government once viewed as essential in fighting the pandemic. The regulators for the Food and Drug Administration said that the company manufacturing the vaccine, Emergent BioSolutions, may have contaminated additional doses at the plant. They said the company failed to fully investigate the contamination, while also fin...

Federal Inspectors Fear More Vaccines Were Exposed to Contamination Last month, up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine had to be discarded at Emergent’s factory in Baltimore. A new report says problems were not fully investigated and other doses may be compromised. Inspectors found fault with a vaccine plant run by Emergent BioSolutions in Baltimore.Credit...Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images April 21, 2021Updated 9:09 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have found serious flaws at the Baltimore plant that had to throw out up to 15 million possibly contam...

Government Executive email Coronavirus Roundup: Vaccines Sent to All State Department Posts Abroad; SBA Makes Progress on Oversight and Fraud Detection for Pandemic Programs  There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed. In his remarks on Wednesday afternoon, President Biden will say the United States will reach over 200 million vaccine shots this week, according to a White House official, shared by the White House press pool. As of Wednesday morning, 51.1% of U.S. adults had received at least one vaccine dose and 33....

Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images House Democrats have called the leaders of the beleaguered Emergent BioSolutions to testify before two committees about their federal contracts and track record headed into the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. James Clyburn, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent a letter Monday to CEO Robert Kramer and Executive Chairman Fuad El-H...