Chris Hamby | The Seattle Times

Emergent BioSolutions' Bayview has a contract to bulk produce four COVID vaccines that are not yet authorized but waiting in the wings, including one from Johnson and Johnson that appears close. The Bayview plant was built with government money for just such a pandemic need. 233410R

November 4, 2021 at 9:38 pm

Federal government cuts ties with troubled vaccine maker

The federal government has canceled its contract with a troubled COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer that ruined millions of doses and had to halt production for months...

June 16, 2021 at 12:11 pm

Vaccine Maker Earned Record Profits but Delivered Disappointment in Return

Record profits warranted record bonuses. That was the recommendation in January by executives at the biotech firm Emergent BioSolutions. The board of directors agreed, signing...

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Manufacturing associates work on a COVID-19 vaccine in one of four flexible manufacturing suites at Emergent BioSolutions' Bayview facility in January. 248460R

May 6, 2021 at 1:12 pm

Baltimore vaccine plant’s troubles ripple across 3 continents

Millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine produced by Emergent BioSolutions have been held back in Europe, South Africa and Canada as a...

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A photo provided by Joe Andrucyk/Office of Governor Larry Hogan shows Robert Kramer, center, the chief executive of Emergent BioSolutions, on Feb. 8, 2021. Executives of Emergent BioSolutions, the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer that was forced to discard up to 15 million doses because of possible contamination, reported a shake-up in leadership on Thursday, April 29, and offered the most fulsome defense yet of the company’s performance. (Joe Andrucyk/Office of Governor Larry Hogan via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. —

April 29, 2021 at 11:10 pm

Shake-up at COVID vaccine manufacturer that tossed millions of doses

Executives of Emergent BioSolutions, the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer that lost millions of doses because of possible contamination, reported a shake-up in leadership and offered the...

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April 23, 2021 at 5:33 pm

Vaccines made at troubled Baltimore plant were shipped to Canada and Mexico

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Friday that it did not know that a Baltimore factory had discarded millions of possibly contaminated doses of AstraZeneca’s...

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In the race to meet global demand, Emergent BioSolutions in Baltimore is gearing up to manufacture 300 million doses of an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus, even before clinical trials in people have begun. (Emergent)

April 7, 2021 at 9:34 pm

Top U.S. official warned that COVID vaccine plant had to be ‘monitored closely’

The Emergent Solutions plant has become a major headache for the team named by President Joe Biden to oversee the pandemic response. There is a...

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March 6, 2021 at 2:12 pm

Amid pleas for protective equipment, how one firm put an ‘extraordinary burden’ on the nation’s troubled stockpile

An investigation by The New York Times found a hidden explanation: for shortages: Government purchases for the Strategic National Stockpile have largely been driven by...

January 20, 2020 at 12:43 pm

How Boeing’s responsibility in a deadly crash ‘got buried’

A review by The New York Times of evidence from the 2009 accident, some of it previously confidential, reveals striking parallels with the recent crashes...