Here is yet another economic disaster article indicating our medical systems will have no drugs etc since China is the sole source of medicine for America and many other countries.
China not only poses an imminent national security threat to the United States militarily and economically, but America relies on the coronavirus plagued communist regime to manufacture nearly all pharmaceutical drugs and medicines, warns award-winning author Rosemary Gibson.
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WARNING: Coronavirus Pandemic Could Lead To a Massive Global Medicine Shortage
by Alicia Powe February 14, 2020 188 Comments
China not only poses an imminent national security threat to the United States militarily and economically, but America relies on the coronavirus plagued communist regime to manufacture nearly all pharmaceutical drugs and medicines, warns award-winning author Rosemary Gibson.
The Chicoms supply nearly all United States medicine – including penicillin, vitamin C, and virtually every other generic prescription and over-the-counter product,” Gibson, author of
China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, explained on Steven K. Bannon’s War Room Pandemic.
“Nobody knows about how dependent we are on the basic components to make our medicine. This is mostly about generics, which are 90 percent of our medicines. We had to find a cheaper way to make them and so it was outsourced to China,” she said. “This is global – there is a global chokehold on the chemicals, the precursors to make the key ingredients in our medicines.”
Approximately
64,000 people around the world, mostly in China, have reportedly contracted the Wuhan coronavirus and at least
1,380 people have died from the virus as of February 14,
CNBC reports. Efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus have shut down factories across China, crippling the vast supply chain the world’s economies rely upon.
The virus could lead to a precipitous drop in exports and production in China, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, Gibson explained.
“Under normal circumstances, without coronavirus, if for some reason we didn’t get exports of medicine from China, within a couple of months our pharmacy shelves would be empty in the United States – in a couple of months,” she said.
Upon the coronavirus remaining rampant in China and spreading across the U.S., medications to remedy the virus would become obsolete, Gibson continued.
“Say people come in who have coronavirus and they go into the hospital. What are they going to get? They might be on a ventilator, and so patients on a ventilator would get sedatives – they’ll get fentanyl or propofol, where do the ingredients come for that? They come from China.
“If your blood pressure is really low, you might get epinephrine or dopamine. Where does that come from? The core chemicals come from China. And if you get a secondary infection, it’s bacterial or if you go into sepsis, which a lot of people die from, where do the antibiotics come from? We can’t even make penicillin anymore and some of the last-resort antibiotics. That’s under normal circumstances, let alone with the coronavirus.”
Many Americans are under the delusion that we have “the best health care system in the world.” While that may be true at many top medical centers, the disturbing truth is that this country shifted is the entirety of its generic medicine and pharmaceutical manufacture to China decades ago.
After former President Ronald Reagan signed the Hatch-Waxman Act in 1984, which encouraged the manufacture of generic drugs by the pharmaceutical industry, US industries began outsourcing to China.
“It began in the early ’90s when generic drugs really came out strong. President Reagan was bipartisan in the 80’s ‘let’s have a generic drug act.’ That made medicines a lot cheaper for people. The brand-name products would go off patent” and more generics were produced, Gibson explained. ” We started sourcing the ingredients to make them in China.
In 2001, when the United States “opened up free trade and China joined WTO, within the next year we lost our last aspirin plant. We lost our ability to make vitamin C. We don’t make the ascorbic acid anymore. That’s when the last penicillin plant closed in 2004.”