what do you think can happen??? wave a magic wand and make more appear???? I am amazed at the people here on this site that think this is what it will take.... to make money you use as few machines as possible running at maximum (85%) output.... you can crank it up to 100% and risk a failure on the machine, then your output is zero. More machines are needed, along with the corresponing clean rooms to place them in.And no, you cannot place them in the same clean room, because you have to shut that room down to install the new machine, and your output drops to zero....Regardless of wishful thinking, this is a 3 to 6 month process....order equipment, fabricate said equipment, design and install new clean room, install equipment, procure raw material ( this is the sticky part of the process ) and then you can ramp up...
Exactly,
And other countries are starting to hoard their supply (not blaming them), so you have to make the active ingredient.
And then, oh then, you have to have someone PAY FOR THE MACHINES! Which in case you haven’t noticed, a lot of pharma companies are in a bit of distress right now.
That is the bitter irony.
Yes. Producing the same product that’s been around since the 1950’s is impossible. Because of machines or something.
Go be ignorant someplace else.
I think a lot of makers do not give each drug its own continually -running production line. They do batches. Set up for drug A, put ingredients in the hoppers, make a batch, store it in warehouse, then shift to drug B.
Another one walks into the prison of two ideas and handcuffs himself to the bars.
There are about a zillion ways to increase production quickly, without shutting down existing HCQ processes.
The simplest is to convert a facility making ANOTHER TYPE OF PILL.
Maybe in the near term we don’t need quite so much Viagra and Cialis, for example!
Now availability of raw materials may be a different issue, manufacturing capacity is most definitely not.