Moderna Plans to Expand Production to Make Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters, Supply More Countries – The Wall Street Journal

NORWOOD, Mass. Moderna Inc. is adding two new production lines at the rebuilt former Polaroid plant where it manufactures its Covid-19 vaccine, part of a push to prepare for making booster shots and the future of the pandemic.

At a site brimming with new steel production tanks and heavy equipment, construction workers in neon safety vests are working to get one new line up and running by fall and the other by early 2022.

The additions will help Moderna increase overall production capacity by 50% at its plant in the Boston suburb of Norwood, company officials said.

Moderna and its manufacturing partners also are expanding production capacity outside the U.S., with a goal to roughly triple the annual global output of Covid-19 vaccine doses to about 3 billion in 2022 from as many as 1 billion this year.

Our plan and our hope is that, as soon as the U.S. has enough doses, were allowed to export so we can help as many countries as we can around the world, Moderna Chief Executive Stphane Bancel said.

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Moderna Plans to Expand Production to Make Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters, Supply More Countries - The Wall Street Journal