Workers at a Baltimore plant producing Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccines failed to shower or change clothes, according to a report released by the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. On March 31, J&J was forced to discard 15 million doses of their vaccine after they were contaminated by staff at the Emergent BioSolutions plant. The US government awarded Emergent with a $628 million contract to help produce the vaccines. The FDA paused production of J&J vaccines at the plant after that inspection. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, blasted that revelation, stating: 'At the same time that the company was destroying millions of vaccine doses... its executives were cashing out'.

Source: Daily Mail May 19, 2021 19:22 UTC