The Trump admin. unveils a plan to dramatically increase production of specialized syringes to be used for a future COVID-19 vaccine.
The new deal"will dramatically expand U.S. production capability for domestically manufactured, medical-grade injection devices starting by October 2020," Andrews said.
“They're very specialized and very specific,” added Walker. “If you need tens of millions or hundreds of millions, they could take way longer to make. So that's a big problem.” In addition to the production of glass vials, the process of putting a vaccine into a container - known as ‘fill and finish’ - is also complicated. Existing facilities are already running at full capacity and built specifically for a given drug, officials say, and therefore cannot be easily switched over to package a new vaccine.in March that the U.S. lacks enough vaccine-delivery capacity.
“They're thinking about every possible kind of pandemic and every possible kind of threat," Walker said."They were stuck in a place where they said, ‘Look, we don't have a way to solve this problem.’”
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