“If Pfizer falls out, it makes it that much harder for other companies to make up the difference,” Fox said. 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. HOW WILL THIS AFFECT HOSPITAL DRUG SUPPLIES? Pfizer says well over 2,000 people work there. 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. Pfizer bought the eastern North Carolina factory in 2015 as part of its acquisition of the drugmaker Hospira.
The Pfizer site does not make or store the company's COVID-19 vaccine or treatments Comirnaty and Paxlovid. The latter are used in surgeries or intensive care units for patients who are placed on ventilators, said Mike Ganio, who studies drug shortages at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The plant makes drugs for anesthesia, medicines that treat infections and drugs needed for surgeries.
The North Carolina plant produces drugs that are injected or through an IV. Here’s a closer look at the possible effects. Pfizer said all employees were safely evacuated and accounted for, and no serious injuries were reported. 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. The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S.
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