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‘People Will Die’: There’s Another Supply Chain Crisis (oncology drugs)
townhall.com ^ | March 21, 2023 | Spencer Brown

Posted on 03/22/2023 12:33:52 PM PDT by lowbridge

From groceries to baby formula and microchips to cold medicine for children, the supply chain issues that have arisen and grown into crises on President Biden and his administration's watch are nothing new. But worsening shortages in the supply of drugs used to treat cancers are drawing dire warnings from medical professionals and those who rely on such medical interventions to save lives. 

According to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, shortages of critical drugs are "the worst they've been in a decade" due to "[quality control issues, selected plant closures and other manufacturing woes" that have seen oncology drugs "hit particularly hard in recent months," Axios reported Tuesday.

"People will die from this shortage, for sure," came another stark warning from the University of Alabama's Jonathan McConathy in The Wall Street Journal. 

Among the medicines running critically low or being rationed are chemotherapy drug methotrexate, cisplatin, and fluorouracil. Already, Pluvicto — a life-extending drug used in cases of metastatic prostate cancer — has run out and won't be available to patients for months, Axios added. BCG, used in bladder cancer treatments, was also "being rationed or was not available for use at all."

On CNN, a leader of the End Drug Shortages Alliance called the situation "a terrible crisis" and called for the Biden administration and pharmaceutical industry to "be doing everything we can to give every single one of these patients the best chance of survival."

So, what is the Biden administration doing? According to Axios, the FDA's Chief Medical Officer Hilary Marston explained that her agency "works with manufacturers as much as it can, such as quickly approving acceptable workarounds," but that seemingly has not worked — as evidenced by the rationing and exhaustion of supplies now coming into focus.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer
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1 posted on 03/22/2023 12:33:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

One of the many joys and wonders of offshoring all your production of products vital to the nation and national security...


2 posted on 03/22/2023 12:37:06 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: lowbridge

I’m a cancer survivor and I’m alive today because I avoid doctors like the plague. They know NOTHING about health


3 posted on 03/22/2023 12:38:21 PM PDT by afchief
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To: eyeamok

Complicit and/or incompetent.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 12:38:44 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: eyeamok

“One of the many joys and wonders of offshoring all your production of products vital to the nation and national security...”

Many of the precursors for our drugs are made in China below the Three Gorges Dam. It always amuses me to hear Freepers talk about bombing the dam. Then you can watch any ill members of your family die. This is so the business oligarchs can stuff a little more in their pockets. Well, a lot more.


5 posted on 03/22/2023 12:41:15 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: lowbridge

Don’t worry, we’ll get Pete Buttigieg right on the job!


6 posted on 03/22/2023 1:11:06 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: lowbridge; Tilted Irish Kilt; null and void; ConservativeMind
‘People Will Die’: There’s Another Supply Chain Crisis (oncology drugs)

Seems that's the idea.

7 posted on 03/22/2023 1:33:54 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: dljordan

We still have an American chemical industry don’t we?


8 posted on 03/22/2023 1:43:35 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: metmom; lowbridge; 4everontheRight; 4Liberty; 5thGenTexan; 45semi; 101stAirborneVet; 300winmag; ...
Prepper/ Disease ping - U.S. Drug Supply Chain - The supply of chemotherapy drugs shortage is increasing

‘People Will Die’: There’s Another Supply Chain Crisis (oncology drugs)

metmom :" Seems that's the idea."

"..According to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, shortages of critical drugs are "the worst they've been in a decade"
due to "[quality control issues, selected plant closures and other manufacturing woes"
that have seen oncology drugs "hit particularly hard in recent months," Axios reported Tuesday.

"People will die from this shortage, for sure," came another stark warning from the University of Alabama's Jonathan McConathy in The Wall Street Journal. 
Among the medicines running critically low or being rationed are chemotherapy drug methotrexate, cisplatin, and fluorouracil.
Already, Pluvicto — a life-extending drug used in cases of metastatic prostate cancer — has run out and won't be available to patients for months, Axios added.
BCG, used in bladder cancer treatments, was also "being rationed or was not available for use at all."

"According to Axios, the FDA's Chief Medical Officer Hilary Marston explained that her agency "works with manufacturers as much as it can,
such as quickly approving acceptable workarounds,"
but that seemingly has not worked — as evidenced by the rationing and exhaustion of supplies now coming into focus."

9 posted on 03/22/2023 2:06:23 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Why?


10 posted on 03/22/2023 2:11:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: kaktuskid

“We still have an American chemical industry don’t we?”

And it has to ramp up. How many die?


11 posted on 03/22/2023 2:24:50 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: afchief

They know about getting paid. They put my hubby on the stent bypass merrygoround… we are working hard to get him off.
One of the good things about covid was exposing the healthcare system.


12 posted on 03/22/2023 2:31:41 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: lowbridge
Who needs cancer drugs? Just take fentanyl instead.

By the way, the abundance of fentanyl and the shortage of other drugs is intentional. The CCP is waging total warfare. They just haven’t gotten to the kinetic aspect yet. Everything they are doing is to soften the target.

13 posted on 03/22/2023 2:48:49 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: kaktuskid

Yes, and Biden could sign an order under the NDA to avoid the situation outlined in the article. But has he? No. Just like he didn’t under the baby formula issue until it reached a crisis point that was difficult to get from out under.


14 posted on 03/22/2023 2:57:12 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

You can’t build a new nation until you kill the old one off.


15 posted on 03/22/2023 3:13:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (yOU CAN'Y )
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; metmom

“..According to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, shortages of critical drugs are “the worst they’ve been in a decade”


Of course they are!

First, you distribute an experimental gene therapy that can cause turbo cancers.....and, other critical diseases....then, you cut off the supply of treatments!

How wonderful is that?

So sick of seeing the boatload of new drug ads....seems like every single ad is a Pharma ad, on the very limited amount of tv we watch....that will just add/exacerbate additional health issues, for the masses.


16 posted on 03/22/2023 3:22:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Jane Long

That was my first thought - explosion of recurrent & turbo cancers after the shots & now there’s a shortage of drugs to treat.


17 posted on 03/22/2023 3:29:00 PM PDT by Qiviut (I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: afchief

I’m a cancer survivor and I’m alive today because I avoid doctors like the plague. They know NOTHING about health

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Lynne Farrow talks about the importance of iodine . She has a similar opinion about cancer to yours. Here’s an interview with her. It’s about an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfHbIKvNOk


18 posted on 03/22/2023 3:32:03 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: lowbridge

Depleted Pharmacopium


19 posted on 03/22/2023 4:30:55 PM PDT by Bobalu ("A Republic, if you can keep it" - Democracy is a soft variant of communism...)
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To: lowbridge

Fire Buttjudge.


20 posted on 03/22/2023 5:12:52 PM PDT by hattend
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