According to the decision of the United States government, now only the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be produced at the Baltimore pharmaceutical plant, where 15 million doses of vaccine were thrown away due to an error.

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The United States government decided on Saturday that only one Johnson & Johnson (J&J) coronavirus vaccine would be produced at the Baltimore pharmaceutical plant, where 15 million doses of this vaccine were lost after its raw material was replaced by AstraZeneca raw material due to human error. .

Emergent BioSolution Pharmaceutical Plant in Baltimore revealed the need to replace raw material on April 1 after a shipment from J&J stopped during quality control.

The government feared that the incident would erode confidence in the two vaccines, so it decided that from now on only the American J&J vaccines would be produced there. British-Swedish company AstraZeneca is in talks with the US government to find new production capacity.

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Hungary continues to vaccinate with the AstraZeneca vaccine, but more and more European countries are choosing to discontinue use of the vaccine as a precautionary measure. Neither the European Medicines Agency nor the World Health Organization supports the suspension of the vaccination program, but Hungarian GPs have already met with patients who refuse to be vaccinated out of fear.

Unlike the vaccine, developed jointly by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, the J&J vaccine consists of a single dose and has been approved for a third emergency use in the United States. The AstraZeneca vaccine has not yet been licensed.



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