More drug shortages possible after tornado hits N.C. plant, Pfizer says

Hospital supplies of dozens of drug products could be disrupted after a tornado damaged Pfizer’s sprawling production and storage plant in Rocky Mount, N.C.

The tornado damaged the site’s warehouse, which stores finished medicines, Pfizer said in a Friday letter to customer hospitals. This could mean that 65 products experience “continued or new supply disruptions in the near-term,” the company wrote. The list includes products that contain lidocaine and morphine but not the coronavirus vaccine, which isn’t produced in Rocky Mount.