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SheltieLover

(81,708 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

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
3. Because of trump it is a risk.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 09:12 PM
Apr 2020

If we get him out our relations with China will start to heal.

JCMach1

(29,242 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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