Janssen/ Johnson & Johnson

From the Associated Press, evening of March 31: Company producing J&J vaccine had history of violations The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard 15 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent …

Associated Press covers the Emergent BioSolutions/ J and J debacle–and it is scary/ AP Read more »

This article does not make sense to me, but I am reproducing tonight’s NYT story below.  If the quality control issues are still being sorted out, then the “conflation” of two vaccine ingredients is not the whole story of the plant’s problems. FDA knew there were problems a month ago, …

Newest Emergent BioSolutions excuse on its Covid vaccine delay Read more »

The Capitol Hill rag Roll Call is just as flummoxed as I am over the Janssen/ Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine being produced by Emergent BioSolutions.  The FDA told them to ask J and J about it, but J and J declined to answer.  Below is the first part of …

Is Emergent BioSolutions authorized? Why have they shipped Covid vaccine for bottling? No one’s telling/ Roll Call Read more »

This link takes you (for free) to all the talks give at the National Vaccine Information Center’s International Public Conference in October.  My talk on Emergent BioSolutions was given on the first day.  Enjoy it and many of the others! 

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/02/archdiocese-new-orleans-johnson-vaccine/ On Tuesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged Catholics to avoid taking the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and to choose alternatives from Pfizer or Moderna instead because Johnson & Johnson used cells derived decades ago from an abortion to create the vaccine. The bishops’ recommendation follows a similar one from the …

Conference of Catholic Bishops advises congregants to avoid the Janssen/ J and J vaccine due to fetal tissue use/WaPo Read more »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/02/merck-johnson-and-johnson-covid-vaccine-partnership/ “Most of Johnson & Johnson’s partners disclosed to date are contract manufacturing companies, but now it is moving to team with larger drug companies that have seen their own vaccine projects delayed or fizzled. The manufacturing process is time-consuming: Johnson and Johnson ferments large batches of its vaccine in vats …

FDA’s EUA for Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine *excluded* authorization for the anthrax vaccine company’s Covid vaccine/ WaPo Read more »

Yesterday, Feb 26, the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee (VRBPAC) met to give its assent to the third Covid vaccine candidate applying for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). And I spent another day listening in. FDA is expected to authorize use of the vaccine today. This one requires only one dose.  …

J and J’s vaccine, actually manufactured by the anthrax vaccine mfr, gets green light from FDA advisors Read more »