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Why Johnson Johnson throwing out 15 million COVID-19 vaccine doses shouldn't scare you

  • Written by Tinglong Dai, Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
imageVaccine production staff demonstrate operations at a facility in Germany.AP Photo/Michael Probst

Human errors at a manufacturing plant forced Johnson & Johnson to throw out 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine – enough to vaccinate 7% of the U.S. adult population.

The New York Times, which first reported the loss on March 31, 2021,...

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