Tornado aggravates supply of medications to hospitals

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

This should be a non-paywalled link:

Tornado Damages Key Pfizer Drugmaking Plant

A Pfizer drug manufacturing plant in North Carolina suffered extensive damage from a tornado, sparking concerns of further strains on the nation’s medicine supplies.

The drugmaker’s plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., is one of the largest drug manufacturing facilities in the world, producing roughly a quarter of the sterile injectable medicines used by U.S. hospitals, according to Pfizer’s website.

Its products include anesthesia, painkillers, anti-infectives and muscle relaxants. The plant doesn’t produce any vaccines or pills, including Pfizer’s Covid-19 Paxlovid antiviral pill and its pandemic vaccine.

I wonder what sort of risk management process Pfizer has in place…

[Rastiln]

@Maphistos_Sidekick

I wonder what sort of risk management process Pfizer has in place…

Risk: Tornado
Plan of action: Raise prices

[meep]

To be nasty, Pfizer is not necessarily the one with the risk – as @Rastiln is indicating.

When Stu was going through infusion chemo in 2017-2018, Puerto Rico had been hit by a hurricane (or something), which disrupted their own pharma/med supply industry, which included the paraphernalia used in IVs, etc.

PR is big in stuff like bags for IV drugs, and because of the disruption, they actually were giving Stu his chemo in glass bottles instead of the usual plastic bags.