{"id":168023,"date":"2023-07-21T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/tornado-damage-to-pfizer-plant-could-create-long-term-drug-shortages"},"modified":"2023-07-21T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:25:59","slug":"tornado-damage-to-pfizer-plant-could-create-long-term-drug-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/tornado-damage-to-pfizer-plant-could-create-long-term-drug-shortages","title":{"rendered":"Tornado damage to Pfizer plant could create long-term drug shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tornado-damage-to-pfizer-plant-could-create-long-term-drug-shortages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina plant produces drugs that are injected or go through an IV.<\/p>\n<p>The plant makes drugs for anesthesia, medicines that treat infections, and drugs needed for surgeries. The latter are used in surgeries or intensive care units for patients who are placed on ventilators, said Mike Ganio, who studies drug shortages at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>The Pfizer site <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-check-pfizer-north-carolina-tornado-covid-vaccines-604985909374\" target=\"_blank\">does not make or store the company\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine or treatments Comirnaty and Paxlovid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina plant produces drugs that are injected or go through an IV. The plant makes drugs for anesthesia, medicines that treat infections, and drugs needed for surgeries. The latter are used in surgeries or intensive care units for patients who are placed on ventilators, said Mike Ganio, who studies drug shortages at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}