NY Times has satellite image video of coronavirus impact

[Fresh_Start]

https://nyti.ms/2POkI6L

[flying_wahini]

1. Wow! Wonder if they closed all the big Pharm manufacturing plants too?

Seeing as how they make 80% of drugs sold in US, this will be a problem.


Get all your Rx’s refilled ASAP!

[Submariner]

2. Puerto Rico used to be big in our pharmaceutical supply chain

I bet the repubs wished they didn't take away the island's tax breaks, and had the plants now as a backup to the debacle we're in now.

[flying_wahini]

4. They produced IV bags and solutions. D5W and Ringers Lactate if it remember it correctly.

[Submariner]

5. In the late 90s I monitored the Pharma factory waste streams to the ocean

Astra Zeneca, Abbott-Abbvie, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, etc made OTC meds and I believe items like birth control pills. The islands big pharma tax break structure was taken away by Bush/Cheney, at the exact same time they closed the PR military bases and just killed the island economy.

[GemDigger]

3. India put out a report that they are no longer exporting their meds.

They are now getting clusters and they need the meds for their own country.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india/global-supplier-india-curbs-drug-exports-as-coronavirus-fears-grow-idUSKBN20Q0ZZ

The government’s list of 26 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and medicines accounts for 10% of all Indian pharmaceutical exports and includes several antibiotics, such as tinidazole and erythromycin, the hormone progesterone and Vitamin B12.
It was unclear how the restriction would impact the availability of these medicines in the countries that import from India and also depend on China. In the United States, for instance, Indian imports accounted for 24 percent of medicines and 31 percent of medicine ingredients in 2018, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.