The concentrated effort to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines as the Covid-19 pandemic began to rage across the world highlighted the importance of the supply chain and helped set a model for how lifesaving medicines will be rolled out in the future, a
Pfizer Inc.
executive said.
“Supply chain has probably done just as much, if not more” than the innovative science that Pfizer and other drug companies used to produce the new vaccines that have been distributed around the world, Jim Cafone, Pfizer’s senior vice president of global supply chain, told a supply-chain industry conference this week.
Mr. Cafone said the rapid development and rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, which took less than a year from when the coronavirus was recognized in Wuhan, China, in January 2020 until doses started shipping from factories in…
