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The plant produces anesthesia and other drugs as well as nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medications used in U.S. hospitals, Pfizer said on its website. Erin Fox, senior pharmacy director at University of Utah Health, said the damage “will likely lead to long-term shortages while Pfizer works to either move production to other sites or rebuilds.”
I certainly can not speak to the extent or complexities of the damage but to me, one end of a very large building was all but ripped away. From the images, the damaged section was shipping and receiving from all the trucks sitting around.
That being the case, it seems to me the company and city officials could come together with a temporary plan to isolate the damaged portion of the facility and fabricate a temporary shipping receiving dock while the building undergoes repair.
Pfizer is worth over 200 Billion and made a killing off COVID. Now it the time for them to pull out all the stops to get this facility on a temporary footing ASAP and then back to business as usual. I am sure insurance will pay a large part of the cost in the end.
Pfizer: "Our ten manufacturing sites and two distribution centers located in nine different states employ nearly 10,000 people."
It seems prudent to place manufacturing plants in different parts of the country.
Prudent yes, but it might reduce economies of scale significantly if production of a drug is split up among different plants. In other words, it might make the drug a lot more expensive to produce.
Other than politics, I say there is no reason why China couldn't be producing enough "sterile injectable medications" and for less in a much shorter time than Pfizer in North Carolina and have it shipped to supply US hospitals. It will not be the first thing sold in the USA with a "Made in China" sticker.
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