Pfizer breaks ground on new $450 million facility in Portage
The new facility will create 450 jobs and focus on injectable pharmaceuticals.
and last updated 2021-03-31 22:48:55-04
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. â Pfizer broke ground on Wednesday on what they say will be the world s most state-of-the-art pharmaceutical facility.
The ceremony happened at the Portage facility. This investment solidifies Pfizerâs focus and our purpose, which is breakthroughs that change patients lives, said Mike McDermott, the president of Pfizer Global Supply.
It has been years in the making, as Pfizer finally broke ground on the new sterile injectable pharmaceutical production facility in Portage.
Muskegon County sees sharp decline in COVID numbers, specifically with elderly residents
Muskegon County seeing drop in COVID cases
and last updated 2021-03-16 19:21:04-04
MUSKEGON, Mich. â The vaccine progress is moving fast in Muskegon County, and the local health department says it s providing massive benefits to their elderly population by decreasing COVID numbers.
âIt is absolutely great to see, not only the numbers gradually going down but consistently staying down, Kathy Moore, director of Muskegon Public Health, said.
The health department says targeting their most vulnerable is why the numbers have gone down.
Those oldest and most vulnerable go to the front of the line.
and last updated 2021-03-12 17:09:14-05
GRAND HAVEN, MICH. â A man in Grand Haven down on his luck got a gift he says he ll never take for granted: a second chance.
JD Edgington has been waiting for life to give him a break. He quit his job two years ago as a firefighter in southwest Iowa, when his PTSD from a call where a 9-year-old boy died became too much to bear.
Then, he says that s when his drinking got out of control. One way or another he found himself living in West Michigan. He got sober after going to rehab back in October.