Tornado damage to Pfizer plant unlikely to cause major drug supply shortages, FDA says

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...