Tornado damage at Pfizer plant likely to cause long-term hospital drug shortages

A father and his children are in awe as they watch a huge tornado form in North Carolina. The EF3 twister heavily damaged a Pfizer drug manufacturing plant.could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say.

The Pfizer site does not make or store the company's COVID-19 vaccine or treatments Comirnaty and Paxlovid.Pfizer headquarters in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The drugmaker said damage to its North Carolina plant will likely cause drug shortages for some hospitals. Photographer: Bess Adler/Bloomberg via Getty Images

There is more than 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing space, or the equivalent of more than 24 football fields, and 22 packaging lines.It will likely lead to some long-term shortages while Pfizer shifts production to other locations or rebuilds, said Erin Fox, senior pharmacy director at University of Utah Health.

Yes, it's been happening for years. But right now, hospitals are specifically seeing shortages for things like chemotherapy drugs.

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