Pfizer leader optimistic about COVID efforts
12 May 2020
Economic Development
Nearly a third of employees working at the Pfizer Inc. labs off Eastern Point Road are working toward a remedy related to COVID-19, Site Leader John Burkhardt said late last week.
"We're really charged up by this," Burkhardt said in a phone interview Friday. "We're humbled to be on the front lines."
Pfizer is taking a multi-pronged approach in the fight against the novel coronavirus that has led to a worldwide pandemic.
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