Tornado Damage to Pfizer Plant Could Trigger Nationwide Drug Shortages: Health Officials

Tornado Damage to Pfizer Plant Could Trigger Nationwide Drug Shortages: Health Officials
Debris is scattered around the Pfizer facility, n Rocky Mount, N.C., after damage from severe weather, on July 19, 2023. Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP
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Health officials said that the tornado-caused damage to a Pfizer plant in North Carolina could cause future drug shortages in the United States.

On Wednesday, the Pfizer facility in Rocky Mount appeared to sustain a direct hit from what National Weather Service officials say was an EF-3 tornado, halting operations at the plant. The company has said that the plant makes about 25 percent of the firm’s sterile injection medicines that are used in U.S. hospitals.

Jack Phillips
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