Posted on 03/04/2020 4:29:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
China’s efforts to contain the coronavirus by initially shutting down factories and keeping workforces at home could have global ramifications for public health around the world, including regarding diabetes, blood pressure, headaches and fevers.
As the world’s top producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, including the ones used to manage those conditions, China’s disrupted factory output has the potential to upset global supply chains, and regulators have been watching with concern.
The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Thursday announced that one drug was already in short supply after production of its active pharmaceutical ingredient was affected by the coronavirus. It declined to name the drug or say where it was made.
“The FDA has been closely monitoring the supply chain with the expectation that the Covid-19 outbreak would probably impact the medical product supply chain, including potential disruptions to supply or shortages of critical medical products in the US,” FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn said, adding that the administration had identified 20 drugs with active ingredients sourced solely from China.
Europe has been bracing for a similar impact. The European Union’s European Medicines Agency said last Thursday it was “analysing and monitoring” the potential impact of the outbreak on pharmaceutical supply chains into the EU, although it had yet to receive any reports of supply disruptions.
Antibiotics, blood pressure and diabetes medications, antiretroviral treatments for HIV and Aids, common household products such as the pain and fever reducer ibuprofen, and the steroid hydrocortisone all fall within China’s sprawling industrial production of generic drugs and their active ingredients.
Those ingredients, which in most cases are no longer under patent, had a combined export value of over US$30 billion in 2018, according to the latest figures from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products.
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And Trump has worked hard to make us less dependent on China.
Exactly, I seem to recall that while Trump was e gaging China, a certain ex-VP was downplaying China’s threat to the US.
“C’mon man, China is a threat. They are just not that bad.”
There are 2 warehouses the size of SUPER WALMARTS FILLED with a supply of medications enough to withstand a pandemic.
But that would ruin the UTTER PANIC narrative around here :)
No, I’m not giving the link.
People should actually SEARCH for good news, since they spend so much time searching for bad :)
[1.] Coronavirus: Student in quarantine after classmates shook hands with Mike Pence [The Independent]
[2.] Coronavirus: Nearly 10% percent of Iranian lawmakers infected [USA Today] [And some have already died.]
[3.] Prediction: White House will go into Doomsday Bunker Mode very soon, like the Chinese have.]
1. China canceled the central event of its political calendar because of the coronavirus, a stark symbol of how it has lost control of the outbreak [Feb 24]
2. Nearly 10% of Iranian lawmakers infected with coronavirus, state media reports [Yesterday, and now some have begun to perish. Iran’s leadership. Last week they were meeting and visiting hospitals to boost morale.]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/03/03/coronavirus-iranian-lawmakers-infected/4937172002/
3. Coronavirus tsar Mike Pence wipes nose before shaking hands with top doctors at virus press conference
4. Coronavirus: Student in quarantine after classmates shook hands with Mike Pence [The Independent]
98% of antibiotics used in the US are from China.
If you need a med to stay alive you should have ordered a 90 day supply weeks ago....
I’m in WA. Retiredish.
When would you recommend bug out to bolt hole?
85% of active medical ingredients are imported from China and India.
What could go wrong?
Whomever allowed this to happen needs to be strung up.
Who knows? If you have a cabin or boat, I’d probably plan a “vacation” soon. I am.
“There are 2 warehouses the size of SUPER WALMARTS FILLED with a supply of medications enough to withstand a pandemic.
But that would ruin the UTTER PANIC narrative around here :)
No, I’m not giving the link.
>>>Sorry, I’m calling BS on that one, DP.<<<<
Supplies ate staged, routes are planned, tanks are full, mags too..... just waiting for the big freak out by the wife.
But we need to mentally get on a war footing. Have you seen the film "Apocalypto?" At the beginning, the peaceful Mayan villagers see panicked refugees running right past them, and they just can't figure it out, and don't react. Normalcy bias. A few minutes later, the reason is clear, as the Aztec slave catchers/killers arrive.
Seeing and understanding what has happened in China, then Italy and Iran, was our warning, but people just can't grasp it.
I never miss videos by these two sources, ever. They generally come out daily.
Dr. John Campbell (UK physician, 363K subscribers, mostly new since he’s begun his daily CV updates)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg
Chris Martenson / Peak Prosperity (259K subscribers0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
Check this out for infectiousness:
A total of 29 Kirkland firefighters and police officers who responded to Life Care Center remain in quarantine. Of that group, 12 have flu-like symptoms, the City of Kirkland said Tuesday. One firefighter was released Monday after finishing the recommended quarantine period.
Most of the first responders are quarantined in their homes, the city said.
—Paige Cornwell
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coronavirus-kirkland-seattle-updates-tuesday/
Underlying article was scrubbed of the “12” number. Too alarming?
It might be a good idea to require that all medicine sourced by our government be manufactured here. Imagine waging a war and relying on an overseas supplier of necessary medical supplies.
12 is an important number here.
No kidding? WHO'da thunk it?Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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