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"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/
in reply to AI6YR Ben

it seems like more distributed manufacturing would be a good idea. And maybe some reserve capacity. Not profitable on a quarterly basis though.
in reply to Douglas VB

@douglasvb crazy how many people need to die and suffer in order for rich people to maximize their wealth.
in reply to AI6YR Ben

the phrase "single point of failure" gets tossed around a lot these days...

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in reply to AI6YR Ben

$$$$One Quintillion in "R&D" siphoned out of entire multiple generations of US population..

And not one scientist told them not to put all eggs in one basket?

Amazing, capitalism breeds so much innovation wow

in reply to AI6YR Ben

Joy

Fuck Big Pharma for bottlenecking and consolidating and fuck the political class for letting them merge to become a security risk for the United States

in reply to AI6YR Ben

@AI6YR You can have efficiency or you have have robust redundancy. When something is vital is should be the latter
in reply to anubis2814

@anubis2814 We're increasingly moving into an environment where robust redundancy is much more important than efficiency.
in reply to AI6YR Ben

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.
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Frances Larina

@hannu_ikonen
"It allows the president, largely through executive order, to direct private companies to prioritize orders from the federal government."

This is exactly what we need. Pfizer (& similar companies) have already shown a strong preference for prioritizing their most profitable products regardless of the impact of less profitable ones have on the people who need them.

in reply to AI6YR Ben

And higher healthcare costs passed on to the consumer.
Of course.