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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 05:17 PM Apr 2020

China has near-total control of the world's antibiotic supply. Is America at risk as a result?

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/28/china-has-near-total-control-of-the-worlds-antibiotic-supply-is-america-at-risk-as-a-result/

WASHINGTON — The baby had so many pustules ravaging his face he could barely open his right eye, a photograph that left the president, national security adviser, and close aides nearly speechless with horror.

A global pandemic had begun in a hospital in Oklahoma City. Doctors soon diagnosed smallpox, a virulent, deadly and disfiguring infection that had...

Paywall on non covid articles beyond what is copied above, but I felt it important to share. Perhaps this article will prompt other news outlets to provide info.

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China has near-total control of the world's antibiotic supply. Is America at risk as a result? (Original Post) SheltieLover Apr 2020 OP
If true that's messed up rockfordfile Apr 2020 #1
If we had a real leader, this would be remedied asap SheltieLover Apr 2020 #2
Because of trump it is a risk. Doreen Apr 2020 #3
We need to fix the supply chain so we are not dependent JCMach1 Apr 2020 #4

JCMach1

(27,556 posts)
4. We need to fix the supply chain so we are not dependent
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 09:17 PM
Apr 2020

On a dictatorship that is destroying human rights and runs concentration camps

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