Groton The site leader at the Pfizer Inc. labs here says about 200 colleagues locally have been so focused on developing a vaccine to battle COVID-19, it s only now sinking in that they were part of a historic effort over the past year that likely saved millions of lives. I think we re only now starting to reflect, said John Burkhardt, a senior vice president at Pfizer who runs the company s largest research and development center in Groton, in a phone interview March 5. When you re going through this, you get this laser-like focus on delivery.
Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer, in a note to company employees that coincided with the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, praised the effort of everyone involved in delivering the world s first vaccine to protect against a disease that has claimed the lives of more than 2 million worldwide and over 500,000 in the United States.
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