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America’s vaccination campaign is off to a good start, with nearly 100 million doses already administered. Now, however, there has been an incident that could affect the availability of certain funds, at least in the medium term.
A lot of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccine cannot be used due to a manufacturing defect. The US pharmaceutical company announced Wednesday that there was a problem with a drug substance for its vaccine that did not meet quality standards at the Emergent Biosolutions production facility.
The error was reported to the FDA health authority and now more employees are used to control production. The problem had no effect on the delivery of more than 20 million cans in the US, which was promised in late March. These occurred in the Netherlands and are not affected by the current incident.
Workers at the Baltimore plant that makes vaccines for both J&J and AstraZeneca accidentally mixed the ingredients of the two vaccines a few weeks ago, the New York Times reported. 15 million J&J vaccination units are affected. Federal officials would attribute the error to human error, he said.
For Johnson & Johnson the incident means considerable damage to the image. After all, the manufacturer’s active ingredient, which only needs to be administered once, was considered an important factor in the US vaccination campaign.
The president of the United States promises to be more urgent with vaccines
Just a few days ago, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that he wanted to accelerate the pace of vaccines again. By April 19, 90 percent of adults should be eligible for a vaccine, Biden said Monday at the White House.
According to the CDC health authority, 52.6 million people are already fully vaccinated. More than 98 million have received at least one vaccine. The United States has a population of about 330 million.
In absolute figures, the country is the most affected by the pandemic in the world: the number of deaths exceeds 552,000 and more than 30 million Sars-CoV-2 infections have already been detected.
