After a tornado struck a Pfizer facility on July 19 in North Carolina, some social media users claimed the company’s COVID-19 vaccine supply had been demolished. But Pfizer said this facility did not manufacture or store COVID-19 vaccines.
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 24, 2023
Amy Rose, a Pfizer spokesperson, told PolitiFact that COVID-19 vaccines and Paxlovid, a medicine that treats coronavirus infections, are not produced at the Rocky Mount facility., Pfizer said this facility has been a key producer of sterile injectables since 1968, and it is currently responsible for manufacturing 25% of the company’s sterile injectables, including anesthesia, analgesia, therapeutics, anti-infectives and neuromuscular blockers.
We rate the claim that the North Carolina Pfizer facility damaged by a tornado was"full of Covid vaccines" False.
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