[SeekAndFind]

COVID-19 also exposed China’s dominance in the world’s production of the raw materials used to create essential antibiotics and medicines. Beijing currently produces 90 percent of the ingredients in medicines used to care for critically ill coronavirus patients. As demand for supplies surged in early March, countries realized their extremely vulnerable position relying on a single country for essential medicines.

Although the United States is an international leader in research, the majority of manufacturing of drugs and medical supplies has shifted overseas. America’s last penicillin fermentation plant shuttered in 2004, leaving China to fill in the vacuum. Gibson explains that Beijing’s “penicillin cartel” intentionally dumps products on the global market at below-market prices, forcing manufacturing plants all over the world to close their doors. China currently supplies 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Sure, turn that all over to a rotten, hostile, totalitarian regime, and one that is not known for safety or quality of its consumable products. What could go wrong?

I remember reading some years ago that an orphanage in Central America got some kind of medicinal syrup from a Chinese manufacturer. The sweetener in the product was derived from the same stuff that makes antifreeze taste sweet. It did not turn out well for the kids who got the medicine.

[Hambone 1934]

CHEAP was the name of the game

[cba123]

No sh*t.

EVERYONE had been 100% sold out.

For thirty years!!!

[Jyotishi]

Which presidents are responsible for this?

[glorgau]

Things might get so desperate that Fauci will recommend using HCQ!

[elpadre]

I thought DHT said the USA in a flurry of re-tooling of factories made the USA self-sufficient to the point of supplying needs of other countries.