The company says its factory near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, makes nearly 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals.
touched down near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker.
The Pfizer site does not make or store the company’s COVID-19 vaccine or treatments Comirnaty and Paxlovid.Pfizer bought the eastern North Carolina factory in 2015 as part of its acquisition of the drugmaker Hospira. The specifics of which drugs might be involved in a shortage and how long that shortage will go aren’t clear.
Hospitals also may switch to different forms of a drug by giving a patient an antibiotic pill instead of an IV if that person can handle it. If a larger vial size of a drug is more readily available, they may order that and then fill several syringes with smaller doses ready for use.Yes, it’s been happening for years. But recently, hospitals have been dealing with shortages for things likeThe impact of drug shortages isn’t limited to hospitals.
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