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Klaralven

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15. The plan seems to have been to make it in Andover using DNA from St Louis

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 07:39 PM

Jan 2021

Kalamazoo is formulation and filling.

Andover's role in the process is to take the plasmid DNA template made in St. Louis and incubate it with mRNA building blocks to make the drug substance, which is purified and shipped to Kalamazoo for mixing, filtration and packaging.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/pfizer-biontech-using-andover-massachusetts-facility-to-manufacture-newly-authorized-covid-19-vaccine/34950293#

Hopefully this is all running, but initially the mRNA was all coming from Puurs, Belgium. The mRNA manufacturing facilities probably do the lipid encapsulation?

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Has Pfizer started any production in the US, or is it all still coming from Belgium? Klaralven Jan 2021 #11

Yes ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #14

The plan seems to have been to make it in Andover using DNA from St Louis Klaralven Jan 2021 #15

Yes, More Than Likely ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #16

Yup onecaliberal Jan 2021 #12

Pfizer is retooling their European factory. Canada and Europe supplies applegrove Jan 2021 #13