The medication, Bicillin (penicillin G benzathine) is a mold byproduct. It’s produced by fermentation. The only reason pfizer wouldn’t be producing enough of it is that the profit margins aren’t high enough.
You could convert a brewery to a Bicillin “factory” and have enough of it to supply the nation.
Pfizer wants to act like this is somehow a result of not enough employees or equipment or whatever. But the real problem is they haven’t spent the probably $100k to buy a new vat to produce the stuff.
This is why there shouldn’t be drug companies. It’s criminal that such an old and well known drug is being left in the hand of these crooks trying to rob the public in dire health straights.
Oh, and yes, it is THAT penicillin. The one discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.