pharmaphorum

APRIL 6, 2021

AstraZeneca is shifting production of its COVID-19 vaccine away from a plant in Baltimore which also makes Johnson & Johnson’s shot, after human error resulted in the contamination of 15 million doses. . Emergent claims however that one batch of the vaccine simply failed quality controls, and no contamination took place.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 4, 2021

to $3.65, Primarily Reflecting Updates to Anticipated Contributions from BNT162b2 Partially Offset by Additional R&D Expenses for Vaccines to Protect Against COVID-19 as Well as Other mRNA-Based Development Programs and COVID-19 Antivirals. Billion Doses Expected to be Delivered in 2021 Under Signed Contracts as of Mid-April 2021.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 22, 2021

Emergent BioSolutions’ difficult month has been made worse by an FDA report into its facility in Baltimore, which has been blamed for the wastage of millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. . AZ’s vaccine meanwhile has yet to be approved in the US. Award of federal contract probed.

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