FDA: Pfizer Plant Damage Unlikely to Cause Major Drug Supply Shortages

Most of the destruction from a tornado 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 existing drug shortages. "We do not expect there to be any immediate significant impacts on supply, given the products are currently at hospitals...