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David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems at MIT, brings us up to date on the results of applying a supply-chain “stress test” to companies in multiple industries.
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David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems at MIT, brings us up to date on the results of applying a supply-chain “stress test” to companies in multiple industries.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Emergent BioSolutions, the Baltimore, Maryland-based company manufacturing the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines, was asked to stop manufacturing COVID-19 related products, while the Food & Drug Administration continues its investigation into quality control issues at the plant that ruined 15 million potential doses of the vaccine.
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The Henry Ford Health System is receiving additional supplies of monoclonal antibodies from the federal government in an effort to hold down COVID-19 hospitalizations that are threatening to overwhelm Detroit area hospitals, the Detroit-based system said Thursday.

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