Why is that we aren't even producing penicillin in country anymore?
What is the source of those dastardly monopolies again?
(I stuck this in my anti-IP thread, but I don't mean to overlook the specific evils of the FDA and how the federal government procures pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The reasons for our unpreparedness are wide-ranging, but are pretty much limited to the Potomac Zone.)
(What’s Left of) Our Economy: What Washington Doesn’t Know About U.S. China Drug Dependence Can Literally Kill Us
It’s bad enough, as widely reported, that as the coronavirus has begun spreading rapidly beyond China, the United States finds itself reliant on the People’s Republic for a wide variety of medicines and, just as important, for the chemical building blocks of those medicines. It’s at least as bad, and much less widely reported, that the U.S. government still doesn’t know the exact extent of this dependence, and still uses an inspection system for checking the safety of these Chinese inputs that looks as leaky as the proverbial sieve.
