{"id":34584,"date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/13\/plan-in-place-to-up-production-of-prefilled-syringes-for-future-covid-19-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:10:07","slug":"plan-in-place-to-up-production-of-prefilled-syringes-for-future-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/13\/plan-in-place-to-up-production-of-prefilled-syringes-for-future-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan in Place to Up Production of Prefilled Syringes for Future COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Project Jumpstart aims to produce 100 million prefilled syringes by the end of 2020 and more than 500 million in 2021<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, May 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A deal for hundreds of millions of syringes that could be used to quickly administer a possible vaccine against COVID-19 has been reached between the U.S. government and a private company.<\/p>\n<p>The $138 million partnership is with ApiJect Systems America, which makes inexpensive prefilled plastic syringes designed to be used in developing countries, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the Project Jumpstart initiative is to produce 100 million prefilled syringes by the end of 2020 and more than 500 million in 2021 if a vaccine against COVID-19 becomes available, government officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The project will &#8220;help significantly decrease the United States&#8217; dependence on offshore supply chains and its reliance on older technologies with much longer production lead times,&#8221; said Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/trump-admin-unveils-plan-ramp-syringe-production-future-covid-19-n1204436\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>NBC News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Jumpstart aims to produce 100 million prefilled syringes by the end of 2020 and more than 500 million in 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-34584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}