04-22-2021, 02:15 PM
Pam wrote:
Why was this facility chosen in the first place?
Trump donors and cozy with one of his appointees.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/20/congress...acts-.html
Top House Democrats are investigating whether Emergent Biosolutions, which recently botched 15 million doses of Covid vaccine, won the federal contract to make the shots based on its cozy relationship with a top former Trump administration official...
"Specifically, we are investigating reports that Emergent received multi-million-dollar contracts to manufacture coronavirus vaccines despite a long, documented history of inadequately trained staff and quality control issues," the lawmakers wrote.
The committees are specifically looking at the role Dr. Robert Kadlec, a former consultant to Emergent and Trump's assistant secretary for preparedness and response, played in helping the company win the contract. They asked the company to turn over a slew of documents, including all of its federal contracts since 2015, all communication with Kadlec as well as information on audits and inspections of its facilities, drug pricing and executive compensation, among other things.
They are also the primary mfr for the Novavax COVID vaccine and for Novavax's candidate flu vaccine. I think I'm gonna skip those if they get approved for the US market.