PORTAGE, Mich. — Pfizer will make history as the first U.S based manufacturing facility to support the production of the oral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid.
On Monday, the company will hold a news conference to announce a multi-million dollar investment to expand the Kalamazoo County location to increase their capability to manufacture Paxlovid. The news conference will start at 11 a.m. at the Pfizer location on Portage Road.
Several Michigan elected officials are expected to attend the conference including Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Pfizer said the expansion will create hundreds of high-skilled jobs for the local community. The Kalamazoo County location has been central in the fight against COVID-19, manufacturing nearly one billion vaccine doses to date.