Talk about twisting around what happened with a twister. On Wednesday, a tornado hit and heavily damaged Pfizer’s plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Since this facility produces around 25% of all their sterile injectable products for U.S. hospitals, this may mean yet more product shortages in this country. But there have been no shortage of, guess what, conspiracy theories and misinformation swirling around this event since. The tornado didn’t hit just the Pfizer plant. It also affected a number of other houses and properties including a daycare center, as...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Most of the that tore through eastern North Carolina Wednesday and struck a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, rather than its medicine production areas, the company said Friday. The drugmaker’s ability to salvage production equipment and other essential materials could mitigate what experts feared would be a major blow to an already strained system as the United States grapples with . “We do not expect there to be any immediate significant impacts on supply given the products are currently at hospitals and in...

A twister that touched down on a Pfizer facility might ship the delicate pipeline of sterile injectable medicines into disarray, which can power hospitals and different drug producers to make use of workaround methods to make sure entry. The twister that struck Pfizer’s Rocky Mount, North Carolina, plant on Wednesday wrecked its warehouse and barely broken its drugs manufacturing areas, the corporate stated in a information launch Friday. Pfizer remains to be working to evaluate the total extent of the harm to the complicated, which produces practically 8% of sterile...

In this aerial image, damage is seen to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier, on July 21, 2023 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfize r on Friday said there does not appear to be major damage to the drug manufacturing areas of its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier. The plant supplies nearly 8% of all sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, including anesthesia, analgesia, therapeutics, anti-infectives and neuromuscular blockers. Pfizer added that...

This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click here. A North Carolina Pfizer pharmaceutical plant that makes anesthesia drugs suffered heavy damage from a Tornado earlier this week. Pfizer confirmed that the large manufacturing complex was damaged by a twister that touched down shortly after midday near Rocky Mount. The company went on to say in an email that it had no reports of serious injuries and all employees were safely evacuated and accounted for. The boyfriend of Carlee Russell, the...

The tornado that ripped through a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday "almost completely destroyed" the plant’s warehouse, which stored raw materials, packaging supplies and finished medications awaiting release to hospitals across the United States, CEO Albert Bourla said during a press conference on Friday. The company is working with the Food and Drug Administration, which said Friday that it is still trying to gauge the impact that the natural disaster could have on the nation’s drug supply. The plant, based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, made...

Pfizer says a tornado that ripped through a key manufacturing plant in North Carolina does not appear to have caused “any major damage” to areas that produce medicines. The company reported most damage from the storm occurred at a warehouse that stores raw materials, packaging supplies, and finished medicines awaiting release by quality assurance personnel. As a result, it remains unclear about the extent to which destruction at the facility — which produces nearly 8% of all sterile injectables used in U.S. hospitals — will exacerbate a growing shortage of...

A Pfizer plant has suffered extensive damage after a tornado ripped through the building, which could lead to shortages of medical supplies nationwide. The pharmaceutical company announced on Wednesday that a portion of its Rocky Mount, North Carolina, facility was significantly damaged during the “violent” storm. Damage was caused to the warehouse, which stores raw materials, packaging supplies, and finished medicines awaiting release by quality assurance. “We can confirm that the Pfizer Rocky Mount facility was damaged by the tornado.

The tornado that hit Pfizer Inc.’s Rocky Mount plant left its warehouse there damaged, but didn’t appear to cause any severe damage in the area where drugs are produced, and the company is working to minimize shortages. Even so, it may take weeks to bring the plant back online, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said Friday at a press conference at the North Carolina plant. “I don’t think we know right now what type of shortages we may have,” Bourla said. “Right now there are at least six weeks inventory...

Most of the damage from Wednesday’s tornado to a major Pfizer plant in North Carolina was to a warehouse facility, rather than areas that produce medicines, the drug giant said Friday. The plant remains closed while damage is assessed. Pfizer said it’s “committed to rapidly restoring full function to the site, which plays a critical role in the US healthcare system,” and noted it’s working with US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and other state, local and federal officials on the effort....