[heartwood]

Drugs, sterile instruments, normal saline, power stretchers - you name it, it probably isn’t made here. My guess is foreign-made medical supplies account for at least 80% of what we use, and our production capacity is gone.

If China wants to screw us, all they have to do is close the pipeline.

Or put slow, slow acting poisons in the drugs.

[Will88]

My guess is foreign-made medical supplies account for at least 80% of what we use, and our production capacity is gone.

Yep, from 2007, China corners vitamin C market, supplies 90% of that sold in US:

China corners vitamin market

An update of that information would look even worse.