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House Democrats launch investigation into J&J contractor Emergent Nathaniel Weixel © Greg Nash Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) House Democrats have launched an investigation into Emergent BioSolutions, the embattled contract manufacturer of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccines, to find out if the company used its relationship with a key Trump administration official to secure federal contracts. In a letter sent to the company's CEO and its executive chairman, Democrats on the Oversight Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said they were c...

European regulators decline to restrict use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, call blood clots very rare Updated April 20, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was inoculated with the first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine Tuesday.PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — European regulators said Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine may be tied to very rare blood clots, but they placed no restrictions on its use in the European Union. The decision, by the European Medicines Agency, was based on the same US data that led Ame...

Congressional investigators have requested top executives from Emergent BioSolutions testify before the Select Subcommittee.

US bet big on COVID vaccine manufacturer even as problems mounted By Chris Hamby and Sharon LaFraniere New York Times,Updated April 6, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend The Emergent BioSolutions plant in Baltimore, Md. At this Baltimore Lab, 15 Million Doses Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine were ruined, which will delay shipments of the vaccine in the United States.Tasos Katopodis/Getty WASHINGTON — More than eight years ago, the federal government invested in an insurance policy against vaccine shortages during a pandemic. It paid Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland biotech firm known for p...

J&J Takes Over Plant Where Contractor Error Led to Loss of 15M Vaccine Doses Intelligencer 4/7/2021 © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Emergent BioSolutions plant in Baltimore, Maryland. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Days after Johnson & Johnson announced that it had to throw out 15 million doses of its increasingly popular one-shot coronavirus vaccine due to a screw-up at a plant run by manufacturing partner Emergent BioSolutions, the Biden administration has stepped in and put Johnson & Johnson in charge of vaccine production at the plant. The New York Timesreported Saturday that the Depar...