AI6YR Ben
"Tornado damages Pfizer plant in North Carolina, will "likely lead to long-term shortages" of medicine" "The plant produces anesthesia and other drugs as well as nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medications used in U.S. hospitals" #shortages #ExtremeWeather #weather #wx #medicine #tornado #pfizer https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-pfizer-plant-north-carolina-damage-long-term-medicine-shortages/
Tornado damages Pfizer plant in North Carolina, will "likely lead to long-term shortages" of medicine

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

CBS News
Jul 20, 2023 at 2:33pmWeb
Show threadBishop WhitewindJul 20, 2023
@ai6yr if course it did. *sighs*
Show threadMsMeropeJul 20, 2023
@ai6yr the phrase "single point of failure" gets tossed around a lot these days...
Show threadanubis2814Jul 20, 2023
@ai6yr You can have efficiency or you have have robust redundancy. When something is vital is should be the latter
Show threadAI6YR BenJul 20, 2023
@anubis2814 We're increasingly moving into an environment where robust redundancy is much more important than efficiency.
Show threadanubis2814Jul 20, 2023
@ai6yr Good public transit is also robust redundancy.
Show threadPennyJul 20, 2023
@ai6yr Damaged it? It’s fucking obliterated
Show threadAnvil of TruthJul 20, 2023
@ai6yr North Carolina must be one shit hole state as they don’t seem to has an inkling of how to enforce necessary building codes. Now I’m sure they want the government to bail out their loss.
Show threadspheruliticJul 20, 2023
@ai6yr maybe someone should have thought about this before doing nothing about climate change for the last fifty years.
Show threadMary Alicia ZiffJul 21, 2023
@ai6yr
And higher healthcare costs passed on to the consumer.
Of course.