Tornado damages Pfizer plant in North Carolina, will "likely lead to long-term shortages" of medicine

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-pfizer-plant-north-carolina-damage-long-term-medicine-shortages/

A major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant was severely damaged after a deadly tornado ripped through North Carolina on Wednesday.

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LifeInOregon@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Unfortunate? Yes. Do I feel bad for Pfizer? No. For their employees? Yes.

Should a company with as much capital have redundancy in their manufacturing facilities to the point that “shortages” are nearly unthinkable? Absolutely.

1chemistdown@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This is the problem with just in time supply chains

GizmoLion@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

Covid taught them nothing. It's not short-term profitable so it's unthinkable.

DougHolland@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

Destruction such as this will never again be uncommon.

This as a sneak preview not many years into the future, when there'll be no workable supply chains at all, as climate change wreaks hellish havoc everywhere, consistently.

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bdesk@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

If your dicky don't ticky that's tricky