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DETROIT — After a year of getting hammered by the pandemic, a semiconductor shortage and storms that snarled Dana Inc.’s global supply chain, the supplier is reaching for a new playbook.
On Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson acknowledged that a huge batch of vaccines—enough for 15 million doses—had to be tossed out after it was found to have been contaminated during the production process. Soon afterward, several outlets reported that the company producing the vaccine at that Baltimore facility, Emergent BioSolutions, had been cited multiple times before for quality control issues. The sheer number of doses that were discarded, and the idea of a “contamination” of a COVID vaccine, has raised plenty of questions.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Robert Kramer, the CEO of Emergent BioSolutions, said in an interview with CNBC that he wanted to clear up “misunderstandings and misconceptions” about what happened at the company’s Baltimore facility last month when millions of Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses were reportedly ruined.
Delta Air Lines is the only major U.S. airline that continues to block airplane middle seats in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 on its flights. The airline has committed to continue to do so through the end of April. Is this good public health practice or bad business practice?
Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods – as well as your smartphone, refrigerator and virtually every other object in your home – were once loaded onto a large container in another country and traveled thousands of miles via ships crossing the ocean before ultimately arriving at your doorstep.
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