Thanks to @devil21
JUL 27 2020
President Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. government has awarded Fujifilm a $265 million contract to expand the country’s coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity.
The site will support Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s effort to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of vaccines and treatments to fight Covid-19.
The task order from HHS reserves manufacturing capacity in the facility through the end of 2021, the company said in a release.
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded the contract to the Fujifilm Texas A&M Innovation Center in College Station, Texas, Trump said. He made the announcement at the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville, North Carolina, where the company is manufacturing "bulk drug substance" for a coronavirus vaccine by Novavax, which was awarded $1.6 billion by the federal government to help develop the vaccine.
"These same manufacturing processes are being conducted on an even larger scale in College Station, Texas," Trump said. "Today, I'm proud to announce that HHS has just signed a $265 million contract with the Fujifilm Texas A&M Innovation Center, which is quite the place, to dramatically expand their vaccine manufacturing capacity."
Health officials have repeatedly warned that even once a vaccine is found to be safe and effective in humans, manufacturing and distributing doses will prove to be another hurdle. Vaccine manufacturers have been ramping up manufacturing of doses before they know that the vaccine is safe and effective in order to cut the time it will take to vaccinate people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/pres...facturing.html
Site Information
About Us
- RonPaulForums.com is an independent grassroots outfit not officially connected to Ron Paul but dedicated to his mission. For more information see our Mission Statement.
Connect With Us