I just checked.
I can get this tomorrow:
Posted on 02/15/2020 3:33:47 PM PST by Hojczyk
China could effectively shut down America’s healthcare system within months given the one-party state’s “global chokehold” on the manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies, explained Rosemary Gibson, author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine.
Mansour noted how the coronavirus outbreak in China has exposed America’s dangerous dependence on Chinese production of pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed for domestic drug production.
Gibson said, “If China shuts the door on exports of medicines and the ingredients to make them, within a couple of months our pharmacies would be empty. Our healthcare system would cease to function. That’s how dependent we are.”
“Another shocking thing I discovered is that India and its huge generic [drug] industry — they’re the top generic producer in the world, although I think China’s going to overtake them in about five to ten years — even India depends on China,” Gibson stated.” [India’s] generic industry would shut down within weeks and months without those core components, and you see it in the Indian press, right now, that they’re already concerned about this because this coronavirus in China is really disrupting supply chains.”
China uses predatory mercantilist policies — including dumping — to undercut American and Western drug manufacturers, just as the communist state did with steel and other commodities, noted Mansour.
Eighty-five percent of the America’s strategic national stockpile of medicines and medical supplies depends on China, Gibson noted.
Gibson concluded, “We have to diversify away from China and bring some manufacturing of essential medicines back home to this country.
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Time will tell. I think Canada also ships stuff to the US.
Developing and formulating is different from “manufacturing in high volume.”
Do some additional research and you’ll find that we *can’t* scale up quickly. The infrastructure needed is just missing, destroyed over the past twenty years. It can be rebuilt, but it will take time.
I am not saying we should stay dependent on China, just that we should not cut off our nose to spite our face while we’re spooling up the industry again. The coronavirus shutdown will at the very least make companies around the world start looking into diversifying sources, which is good.
Should I buy into American pharmaceutical manufacturing?
Senate, House, Never-Trumpers - who and their relatives are getting rich from Chinese jobs/investments?
What does holding them responsible or accountable look like? Vote them out? Letting them move on to a high paying private sector job? That isn't very satisfying.
But is it made there.... I use to get from PlanetDrugs in Canada. They usually put the country on the labels but can’t remember what it said on the bottles.
Taking Famotidine, Pepcid generic at the moment but Dr gave me a prescript for Prilosec called Pantoprazole, Brand name Protonic....no country specified on the bottle. I’m wondering why!!!!!! Where does it come from? Who the hell knows!!!!
I’m pretty sure I got Protonic thru PlanetDrugs... a long time ago before Medicare.
There is a large amount of domestic manufacturing, including packaging, that is used in development. When product goes to production for market (not pre-market production) alternate supply chains are qualified to reduce costs.
The manufacturing sites and the supply chains are already qualified, the processes validated. This is not as big as an issue for us, as it is for them.
I’ve have some made in Indonesia.
The thought of our drugs coming from China gives me chills.
Heck, I won’t buy dog food made there!
Their record of bastardizing anything they can get away with should make drugs verboten.
The manufacturing sites and the supply chains are already qualified, the processes validated.
Yes, but do those manufacturing sites and the supply chains keep on making the newly developed product, and for how long? Or do they go on to the next product to develop once the cheaper suppliers are up to speed?
What I'm getting at is how much production capacity really exists in the US, and how fast can additional production lines be themselves produced? Maybe it's different in Big Pharma, but my experience in "modest" manufacturing (mostly 100 to 300 employee plants) is that creating new production lines, esp. if a new or renovated-to-purpose building is required, is not exactly snap-your-fingers stuff. WW2 timelines would be disastrous for millions of our meds-dependent population.
America is over drugged. Stop taking ALL of them.
I understand your skepticism, really I do. What’s being discussed is unthinkable, mind-numbing, etc.
But I don’t recall whole cities being quarantined, military style.
Vietnam just quarantined a city of 10,000? Cruise ships unable to dock, evacuees held on military bases...
To me...it isn’t about the numbers being reported. It is about the actions being taken, not just in China, but around the world.
Something wicked is on the loose and governments are worried, maybe even scared. The US military prepping for coronavirus pandemic as of 3 days ago. I don’t recall this kind of announcement of prep being made for SARS, MERS, or even the Ebola scare.
It isn’t about the numbers, it is about what is happening behind the numbers. The two don’t match up. Plus this virus...if that’s what it really is...you are not immune to if you recover. Unlike most other viruses...you have a level of immunity for awhile.
Heard this interview on breitbart, very disturbing. Start a pandemic and they stop the meds you need, bloodless coup
All modern distribution systems are built around just in time delivery. If you quarantine a modern city for more that 48 hours, everything starts to run out.
*Another 4 letter S word works!
I did clean it up a little...
By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...
New tagline
Exactly.
Some might see this as an awful disaster.
I know some others will see it as a grand opportunity.
With Chinese business and factories going offline due to the pandemic there, there must be many competitors rubbing their hands together!
Where do you think they’re having them made? It’s corporate. The companies that make all the prescription drugs are global, and they have stuff made where it’s cheap.
Not to pry, but why would someone named Bonemaker need Viagra?
Oh. I see. Your cousin...
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