Posted on 01/09/2023 2:07:19 PM PST by EBH
As Covid infections surge across China, the U.S. again risks falling short of medical supplies as that country struggles to keep factories running and goods flowing out of its ports.
U.S. hospitals, health care companies and federal officials worked to lessen their dependence on China for medical goods after the first wave of Covid infections in 2020 laid bare the major role China plays in manufacturing such crucial items as masks, latex gloves and surgical gowns, along with the key drugs and components in many medical devices.
Those efforts over the past three years are expected to be tested in the coming weeks and months as the virus rolls through China following the lifting of nearly all Covid restrictions there last month. China has stopped releasing official figures for infections and deaths, but media reports show hospitals overwhelmed with patients, funeral homes out of space for bodies, and factories unable to operate with so many workers ill.
The U.S. is already grappling with unrelated shortages of medications for children, including pain relievers and antibiotics.
U.S. officials and medical suppliers said in interviews that they were closely monitoring the situation in China and had yet to see any shortages directly linked to the latest wave of infections there. Biden administration officials said they had been coordinating across federal agencies to monitor the supply chain and didn't anticipate significant shortages, unlike at the start of the pandemic, because of government efforts to bolster U.S. stockpiles and moves by companies to lessen their dependence on China.
“We’re looking a lot for potential early warning signs in the medical supply chain for any kinds of disruptions,” said an administration official.
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Strengthen your social credit scoring system or we won’t sell you the pharmaceuticals that you invented.
2 years on and we still depend on the ChiComs for Aspirin?
D-Rat/Prog/WEF/Commie Clown World on full display.
Just produce everything in Mexico and send illegals back for job opportunities.
We depend upon the CCP-Commie Bastards for almost EVERYTHING.
Any excuse to keep the masks, the lockdowns, and the fear going.
Most excellent idea. Win-win.
Unless they really don’t want to work, just want handouts.
Sounds like they can keep making tons of fentynal though
You’re right.
I’d bet the CCP-Army carefully guards that factory and the workers, to insure the supply to Mexico, and into America.
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