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Scrutiny follows drugmaker’s disclosure that it scrapped distribution of doses after an ingredient didn’t meet quality standards at a contract manufacturing facility
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Scrutiny follows drugmaker’s disclosure that it scrapped distribution of doses after an ingredient didn’t meet quality standards at a contract manufacturing facility
Joining us is Dr. Julie Swann from North Carolina State University, a faculty member who specializes in medical supply chains, and Dr. Robert Frank from the Center for Vaccine Research and Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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A Baltimore company trying to produce COVID-19 vaccines had to throw out a bad batch of the Johnson & Johnson product. That sets back efforts to expand production of this vaccine.
Human errors at a manufacturing plant forced Johnson & Johnson to throw out 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine – enough to vaccinate 7% of the U.S. adult population.

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