Category: J&J vaccine

Facts Matter (Nov. 9): 15M Contaminated Doses Cause US Government to Cancel Contract With Major Manufacturer

The U.S. government recently canceled a major contract with a vaccine manufacturer after this particular company produced a batch of 15 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines that were found to be contaminated. Meanwhile, even after a federal court has officially issued a restraining order on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate, that doesn’t appear to be…


J&J Vaccine Possibly Linked to Two More Serious Health Conditions, EU Regulator Finds

The European Union’s drug regulator on Oct. 1 recommended updating the label for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine with warnings for two more serious health conditions likely linked with the vaccine. The European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) concluded that the use of the J&J vaccine is possibly linked with vein clotting and an…


NIH Director: J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Blood Clot Risk ‘Truly Rare’

Blood-clotting issues linked to the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine are extremely rare, the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Sunday as he pushed back against calls for the one-dose vaccine to be paused for women under the age of 50. NIH director Francis Collins made the remarks in response…


FDA Examination Finds Substandard Conditions at Contractor’s Plant for J&J Vaccine Production

A contract plant that was producing materials for Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) CCP virus vaccines failed to meet sanitary standards, according to federal health authorities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an examination of the Emergent BioSolutions manufacturing facility after production was put on pause last Friday, according to an SEC filing. The FDA…


Trudeau Says Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Faces Production Challenges

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada has been warned of manufacturing problems plaguing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The viral vector vaccine developed by J&J’s subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, was authorized by Health Canada as safe and effective last week. Canada pre-ordered 10 million doses of the vaccine, which is the first and only one in…