Climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug supply chain, a new study says.
Nearly two-thirds of all U.S. pharmaceutical production plants are located in a county that has experienced at least one weather disaster declaration during the past six years, researchers reported Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
This vulnerability has already caused chaos in America's health care system, researchers noted.
In both 2017 and 2024, hurricanes that hit in Puerto Rico and North Carolina triggered nationwide shortages of IV fluids, the team said.
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