Posted on 05/17/2022 6:35:54 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
China’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns have led to a shortage of a dye widely used in medical scans, prompting U.S. hospitals including the Mayo Clinic to ration supplies, postpone procedures or switch to less optimal imaging.
The shortage arose in recent weeks for iodinated contrast media products including Omnipaque, made by General Electric Co.’s GE Healthcare unit at a plant in Shanghai. Omnipaque is given by intravenous injection to patients before imaging procedures to make internal organs, blood and vessels more visible in procedures such as CT scans.
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Tip of the iceberg. It’ll get far worse than this.
It’s been in short supply in the US for weeks now.
Heard bout this yesterday. It’s unbelievable the number of products that we have outsourced to China.
This is the result.
I had an angiogram of my cerebellum recently (they thought I had a stenosis but fortunately not). The hospital tried to charge insurance $60,600. Insurance adjusted it to just under $10,000. They used contrast. The amount they asked was about 5x too much. I wondered about a shortage.
My wife had a contrast MRI the active ingredient is a heavy metal gadolinium. She suffered at the injection site for months and had excruciating rib pain. This is horrible toxic crap and is over used.
“ A 2016 study in Magnetic Resonance Imaging found headaches, bone and nerve pain, and skin thickening were the most commonly reported reactions in patients that were presumed to have gadolinium toxicity. In the study of 42 people with symptoms, brain fog and headaches lasted for more than three months in 29 people.
Vomiting can occur with less than 1 in 100 injections, according to Inside Radiology. Between 1 and 4 in 100 will notice mild nausea or a headache.
Studies and adverse event reports submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) link GBCAs to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a serious condition that causes skin tightening. In the most serious cases, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis can cause thickening or scarring of the internal organs, which could lead to death. This side effect appears mostly in patients who had pre-existing kidney conditions, and has been estimated to occur in about 4 percent of patients with severe kidney disease that receive GBCAs.”
https://www.drugwatch.com/gadolinium/side-effects/
Hospitals always charge the insurance too much. What the insurance company doesn’t pay they can write off as a loss.
Like heparin.
Ok that makes sense. They were charging almost half my annual salary for 20 minutes of work. That’s insane.
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Posted this on another thread; fits here too:
This isn’t about Covid. It’s about economics. Shanghai is a big port city, and China’s leaders are keeping it shut down so that no exports to the Western countries happens, thus screwing up the supply and distribution to the U.S. and EU of goods, harming our economies. It’s China’s way of helping Russia and sticking it to us, as they consider us their enemy.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they shut down other port cities too, allegedly because of Covid as an excuse. China could care less if millions of their own populace starve or die. It’s their way of culling an overly large herd.
I have a friend that went to have a nuclear study of his heart Monday.
They had no radioactive dye or whatever they use. Shortage.
Guess we get that from China also.
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