A Pfizer manufacturing facility, responsible for making nearly 25% of the company's sterile injectable medicines used at U.S. hospitals, sustained heavy damage from a tornado in North Carolina, potentially worsening an already deep drug shortage.

The continuing trend of severe weather has added to another problem in the U.S.— damage from an unusually strong tornado may create nationwide drug shortages after a large Pfizer plant in North Carolina was nearly destroyed by the storm.

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