{"id":897244,"date":"2021-05-19T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=897244"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:39:13","slug":"before-ruining-millions-of-vaccines-emergent-failed-inspections-raked-in-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=897244","title":{"rendered":"Before ruining millions of vaccines, Emergent failed inspections, raked in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Robert Kramer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Emergent BioSolutions, speaks via videoconference during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 19, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Stefani Reynolds-Pool \/ Getty Images<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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When contract-manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions contaminated at least 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine and millions more doses of AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine at its Baltimore facility earlier this year, the company had been collecting monthly payments of $27 million from the US government\u2014payments intended to help Emergent avoid just such a manufacturing disaster.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a preliminary report from a Congressional investigation<\/a>, conducted by two House committees\u2014the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the Committee on Oversight and Reform. The report was released today and includes a number of troubling new details about the ongoing Emergent scandal.<\/p>\n

The monthly \u201creservation fees\u201d Emergent received were paid out of a questionable $628 million contract from May 2020. The money was intended to help Emergent maintain a state of \u201ccleanliness and readiness\u201d to produce vaccine under proper manufacturing standards and practices. But, as Ars previously reported<\/a>, an inspection by the Food and Drug Administration in April found that to be far from the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Before ruining millions of vaccines, Emergent failed inspections, raked in cash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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