"[Under Trump swamp creature and former Emergent consultant Robert Kadlec,] Emergent..became the main U.S. location for manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca"
"[S]o far not a single dose has been usable"
nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/…
"[S]o far not a single dose has been usable"
nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/…
["I]nternal documents and interviews..depict a factory operation that was ill-equipped to take on such a mammoth manufacturing task, despite Emergent’s having received a $163 million federal contract to improve the facility"
"Audits and investigations—including ones conducted..by Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca,..federal agencies and Emergent’s own quality evaluators—found..Emergent had not followed..basic industry standards..and identified repeated shortcomings in efforts to..prevent contamination."
"The audits and investigations..flagged a persistent problem with mold in areas required to be kept clean, poor disinfection of..plant equipment leading to growth of bacteria, the repeated approval of raw materials that had not been..tested, and inadequate training of..employees"
"In their own audit last July, Emergent’s auditors said errors 'are not investigated to determine root cause, or are not investigated adequately,' [and] 'Investigations are terminated without sufficient cause.'"
"[F]our former company officials..described an environment where top Emergent leadership tolerated and even encouraged the flouting of federal standards for manufacturing and marketing products."
"The Biden administration must..figure out how to rein in a company accustomed to getting its way with the government."
(This of course will be easier without Kadlec--who consulted for Emergent and who co-owned a company with Emergent's founder--calling the shots.)
(This of course will be easier without Kadlec--who consulted for Emergent and who co-owned a company with Emergent's founder--calling the shots.)
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