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Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need

July 21, 2023

The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say. Wednesday’s tornado touched down near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker.

 

Article Source: Frederick News-Ppost

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