The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, is working with Johnson & Johnson to find and produce a vaccine in a gargantuan deal for the new agency.
One of America’s biggest companies has teamed up with one of the country’s least-known federal agencies to make doses of a coronavirus vaccine. Lots of them. The deal underscores the important role that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, plays behind the scenes in protecting Americans—and everyone, really—from pandemics.
