Pfizer Plant Damaged by Tornado Amid US Drug Shortage (Correct)

A Pfizer Inc. plant responsible for making a quarter of the company’s sterile injectables used at US hospitals suffered heavy damage from a tornado in North Carolina, potentially worsening an already deep drug shortage across the nation.

All employees at the Rocky Mount facility are safe, Pfizer said in a statement. The drugmaker is assessing the damage to determine the impact on production.

At least 129 sterile injectable drugs are in short supply in the US, including mainstay cancer drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, according to the University of Utah’s drug information service, which tracks shortages. Pfizer’s North Carolina plant makes ...