Posted on 11/09/2021 7:48:15 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
From medications to gloves to crutches, the strains of the global supply chain are hitting U.S. health care hard.
Why it matters: Shortages of health care supplies can quickly jump from a nuisance to a life-or-death proposition. They indicate serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. health care supply chain.
State of play: After seeing major supply shortages for protective equipment and ventilators in the early months of the pandemic, critical supplies stabilized and, in some places, demand for domestic products later bottomed out.
Now global supply chain tie-ups are rippling across the industry again, leading to extended wait times for commonly used supplies and equipment.
What they're saying: "We're experiencing a vast array of global challenges that, layered together, create bottlenecks in a system not designed for such demands," according to an October report from medical supply giant Premier.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Oh the irony.
Real life and death situations arising from the democrats (and rinos) build back better plan.
Globalism’s a bitch.
My pharmacy has had a record of trying to fill my prescriptions
early. It’s been so early that I have had to reject their attempts
to get me to come in and pick up.
That will not be happening again. I need my medication and
can’t do without it. I’ll let them supply me early, and build
up a buffer.
We sure live in strange times.
with hot sauce
Yeah, HC has a severe shortage of common sense.
Let’s go, Fauxcy....
Cloward-Piven
Globalism + JIT + Brandon —> Total Collapse
China.
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Brandonomics at work.
Here in my part of north Texas I have noticed for quite a while that the canned cat food shelves have been sparse in ALL of my local stores. And of course the price is higher too. Maybe it’s a shortage of the metal for the cans themselves?
I heard a comedy routine years ago where the comic said something like "If it wasn't for mom's social security check, she'd have to eat cat food seven days a week instead of four."
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