FDA Authorizes More Covid-19 Vaccine Doses From Troubled Baltimore Plant

The FDA cleared an additional batch of 15 million J&J Covid-19 vaccine doses from a troubled production plant in Baltimore

. The Baltimore contract-manufacture site, run by Emergent BioSolutions Inc., originally made vaccines for J&J and another vaccine company, AstraZeneca PLC. By this spring, the FDA found that Emergent hadn’t taken measures to avoid cross-contamination between the two vaccine lines.

There are still more than 100 million vaccine doses or unbottled dose equivalents in the plant’s inventory, from both companies, awaiting FDA action. The agency is expected to make a decision on the AstraZeneca vaccine later this week or next week, according to the senior U.S. official.

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