US: Tornado rips through Pfizer plant in North Carolina; Tornado warning in Philly | Oneindia News
A Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Rocky Mount in US’ North Carolina suffered heavy damage from a tornado. The destruction came at a time of worsening drug shortage across the United States. The Pfizer pharmaceutical plant is reportedly one of the largest sterile injectable product facilities in the world. The drugmaker in a statement said that all their employees were safe at the facility.
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00:00 A Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Rocky Mountain in the US's North Carolina suffered heavy
00:15 damage from a tornado.
00:16 The destruction came at a time of worsening drug shortage across the United States.
00:21 The Pfizer pharmaceutical plant is reportedly one of the largest sterile injectable product
00:25 facilities in the world.
00:27 The drugmaker in a statement said that all their employees were safe at the facility.
00:32 It added that they were assessing the situation to determine the impact on production.
00:35 Meanwhile, the US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, said that it is evaluating the situation
00:41 and will work with the company to understand any potential impact to the nation's drug
00:45 supply.
00:46 According to reports, at least 129 sterile injectable drugs are in short supply in the
00:51 US, including mainstay cancer drugs, cisplatin and carboplatin.
00:56 The disaster struck as the US was facing a nine-year high of drug shortages.
01:01 According to Erin Fox, who runs the University of Utah's Drug Information Service, 309
01:07 medicines are in short supply.
01:09 The North Carolina Pfizer plant, which produces nearly 30 percent of all sterile injectables
01:14 used in the hospitals, makes injectable drugs such as anesthetics, painkillers, anti-infective
01:20 medicines, neuromuscular blockers, along with vials and syringes.
01:25 According to the company's website, it also sends drugs to other countries, shipping more
01:28 than 200 million units annually.
01:32 According to Pfizer's website, the Rocky Mountain facility employs over 4,500 professionals.
01:38 In other news around tornadoes in the US, severe storms brought the risk of flash flooding
01:42 and strong winds to the Philadelphia region on Friday morning.
01:46 A tornado warning was even issued in Sussex County in Delaware.
01:50 Reports said that the strong cold front is breaking the recent humidity in the area but
01:54 doing so at the cost of heavy rain, damaging winds and a flash flooding risk for the entire
01:59 Philadelphia region.
02:00 A first alert is in effect for the entire area until 8 am local time on Friday.
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