Posted on 05/17/2023 2:13:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“commanding the attention of the White House and Congress”
Whew. Chomo Joe and the democrats are on the case. Problem solved. No worries.
And besides. Bernie said food lines, in this case medicine lines, are a good thing.
What do you mean?
Me too. Me too.
There’s probably environmental extremism helping to drive drug makers out of the US.
But I suspect that it’s more a result of America’s financial class embracing globalism with utter indifference to what it does to domestic industry and national security.
They have been fine with strip mining America’s manufacturing and both political parties have helped them do it. One reason that both parties hate Trump is that he’s interested in undoing that.
https://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336337115/as-pharma-jobs-leave-n-j-office-space-ghost-towns-remain
“As Pharma Jobs Leave N.J., Office Space Ghost Towns Remain”
July 30, 2014
New Jersey used to be known as “the nation’s medicine chest,” but over the past two decades, many of the state’s pharmaceutical industry jobs have dried up or moved elsewhere, and left millions of square feet of office space, warehouses and laboratories sitting empty.
One of those sites is the 116-acre corporate campus of the Swiss drugmaker Roche in Nutley, N.J. There are dozens of buildings on this campus, 10 miles west of midtown Manhattan. In fact, there are enough bio and chem labs, offices and auditoriums to fill up the entire Empire State Building. But since December, all of that space — 2 million square feet of it — has been vacant, the laboratories dark and the sidewalks deserted.
“When this was a thriving site, this sidewalk would have been busy with folks walking up and down,” says Darien Wilson, one of just 38 Roche employees still working at the site as the company tries to sell the property. “We had great amenities for people, like on-site child care. You had dinners to-go where you could order food by lunch and take it home with you if you were working late. We had dry cleaning,” she says.
Five years ago, Roche acquired Genentech, moved its management to San Francisco and started to slowly withdraw from New Jersey. That’s a pretty typical story for what’s been happening in the state. In the past 20 years, New Jersey went from having more than 20 percent of U.S. pharma manufacturing jobs to less than 10 percent.
“Essentially, every time there’s a merger or one company acquires another company, there’s a reduction in force, and there’s been furious mergers and acquisitions in the pharma industry, particularly over the past 10 years,” says James Hughes, dean of the school of public policy at Rutgers.
In 2009, Merck bought Schering-Plough, and Pfizer bought Wyeth. This year Pfizer tried to purchase the British drugmaker AstraZeneca. And the list goes on.
Business professor Erik Gordon of the University of Michigan says cutting-edge research isn’t being done on closed campuses in the suburbs anymore.
“The new innovation in biotech, in genomics is happening elsewhere. It’s happening in places where there are graduate educational institutions that have research faculty doing that, and New Jersey really doesn’t have that,” he says.
That’s something Roche is acutely aware of as it looks for a buyer.
“What really sets this site apart is its location,” says Tom Stanton of Jones Lang LaSalle, the real estate firm marketing the site.
The site is so big that to show it off, Stanton needs a minibus. Looping through a parking lot with thousands of empty spaces, Stanton stresses how close the campus is to Manhattan, Newark’s airport and public transit.
“Hiring young, talented people is really important to these companies. And that population of upcoming talent is more into the city life,” he says.
But even though it’s only a good bike ride from Manhattan in a straight line, the Roche campus can feel far away from the city’s pulse. Stanton says finding even a single tenant has been difficult. So far, he’s shown the campus to 35 companies, and no deal yet.
The situation may be even worse for the Merck World Headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N.J. It’s about 50 miles from Manhattan — making its 1 million square feet of space harder to fill.
But there may be an answer. The state’s biotech firms are growing fast, and they may be future tenants for these big pharma campuses. But so far, they’ve only been leasing small portions of space. Stanton says that could work for something like Roche’s Building 123, a six-story structure with a lot of lab space.
“That building [would] cost $600 million to re-create today,” he says.
Young companies would love to get some of its lab space. But they don’t need, and can’t afford, the whole building. Stanton just has to find a way to carve it up and then get some companies to bite.
Are you spending time in India or do you order over the net?
“The Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain”
We’re saved.
Order over the net. https://my.indiamart.com
chemotherapy to treat lung cancer?
Great,my hubby was diagnosed for esophageal/lung cancer.
Gets worse everyday.Even on everyday drugs, the timing for refills go badly, suck.
Why not shift our drug manufacturing to China?
What could go wrong?
If I had a dollar for every person I had to answer questions
like that to back in the early to mid 90s, I’d have
considerably more wealth than I do now.
If only there was a way these medicines could be made in the USA….
(From the article):" Hundreds of drugs are on the list of medications in short supply in the United States,
as officials grapple with an opaque and sometimes interrupted supply chain, quality and financial issues that are leading to manufacturing shutdowns."
"The shortages are so acute that they are commanding the attention of the White House and Congress,
which are examining the underlying causes of the faltering generic drug market, which accounts for about 90% of domestic prescriptions."
"The Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain,
at a time when the United States remains heavily reliant on medicines and drug ingredients from India and China.
And in recent weeks, generic drugmakers, supply-chain experts and patient advocates have appeared before lawmakers to discuss the problems."
"The scarcity of generic forms of chemotherapy to treat lung, breast, bladder and ovarian cancers has only heightened concerns."
(My Comment) : This administration still hasn't 'fixed' the supply chain for baby formula, as there have been shortages known for over a year
Can they do any worse ?
If you have need for any life-saving drugs, try to have a months supply, or more,.. in reserve.
I stand corrected. NEW ILLEGALS on top of the already 20-30 million that are here.
Here’s a list of places to buy many/most generic antibiotics and other meds (including IVM and HCQ), no Rx required. (I stocked up on a range of antibiotics because several of them are in short supply where I live.)
https://patriots.win/p/16b6N34bYp/sources-for-ivermectin—hcq-anti/
Same here. I now buy all of my meds from India. High quality, cheap prices, and no shortages. Started with a stash of IVM/HCQ for covid, then antibiotics and all my heart meds. I haven’t had to deal with a US doctor or pharmacy in several years.
The pharmacist was clearly worried and told her they are supposed to get more in today.
This is a common drug, Amoxicillin. That is probably one of the most prescribed antibiotic in the country!
Information from the hot link posted in Post #56
"Over 300 once common medications now appear on the FDA’s shortage list, and the criminal Biden regime has formed an advisory council to investigate the underlying causes
of the faltering drug market, naming Xavier Becerra the committee’s “czar.”
The regime’s hegemonic Health and Human Services secretary quickly ascribed the calamity to “ongoing Covid-19 supply chain issues”—a blatant falsehood."
"As reported this week, U.S. Special Forces happened upon a warehouse filled with antibiotics and painkillers that would have gone to Ukraine had they not intervened.
They seized the meds but now must find a way to release them back into the market—a challenging task
because Deep State agents of evil might simply pilfer them again."
China did decide to limit most non opioid drugs to the US.
It is a way to fight the US without force
The pharmacy called and they have the prescription filled wife and I picked it up.
Back in 2019 President Trump saw what was going on with the drug shortages and was trying to get it moved back to this country.
Let me guess, the drug shortages are all connected to the side effects of the vax and/or covid. did you know the virus also leaves similar damage. Spike is spike. They’ve known since Sars was first [developed]?
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