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HEARING ON RUINED DOSES: U.S. House lawmakers Wednesday grilled executives of a Maryland biotechnology company that received a $628 million federal contract to manufacture vaccines but ruined nearly 15 million potential doses. To date, Emergent BioSolutions has not produced a single vaccine dose at its Baltimore manufacturing plant that U.S. regulators have cleared for use, although it has received $271 million of its contract. The 15 million potential doses that the company threw out after they were contaminated were of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. There are more than 100 million doses on...

Lawmakers Grill Vaccine Factory Executives About Manufacturing Mistakes at 1:15 pm NPR As Emergent BioSolution's Baltimore factory was throwing away unfinished COVID-19 vaccine doses and struggling to pass muster with the Food and Drug Administration, the company awarded at least $3 million in bonuses to a handful of executives, according to documents released by a congressional subcommittee Wednesday. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis grilled executives from Emergent, which was awarded a $628 million contract with the federal government to boost COVID...

1 of 40 An Indian nurse prepares to administer a dose of Covishield, Serum Institute of India’s version of the AstraZeneca vaccine to a woman as others wait their turn in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. India has the second-highest coronavirus caseload after the U.S. with more than 25 million confirmed infections. Aijaz Rahi Medical personnel wearing protective gear, guide people at a rapid coronavirus testing center after the infection alert rose to level 3 in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Chiang Ying-ying Indians wearing protective face masks...

Not one usable vaccine so far out of Baltimore plant with multi-million-dollar federal contract By Laura Olson Angry U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday had one key question as they grilled executives of a Maryland biotech manufacturer forced to dump 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine: Has there been one usable vaccine dose produced as a result of the $271 million paid to date by the U.S. government? The answer is no, Emergent BioSolutions chief executive officer Robert Kramer acknowledged when pressed during a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus ...

The Latest: EU signs Pfizer vaccine contract for 1.8B doses Sign In The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 17 1of17FILE - In this Friday, April 23, 2021 file photo, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen makes a statement during an official visit to the Pfizer pharmaceutical company in Puurs, Belgium. The European Union has cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8 billion doses through 2023. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that her office �...