Coronavirus pandemic is causing 'unacceptable' shortages in US drug supplies, report says

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The coronavirus pandemic is causing 'unacceptable' shortages of US drug supplies in the United States, according to a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota

The coronavirus pandemic is causing"unacceptable" shortages of US drug supplies in the United States, according to a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

The report says shortages have limited 29 of 40 drugs critical for treating Covid-19 patients, including propofol, albuterol, midazolam, hydroxychloroquine, fentanyl, azithromycin and morphine, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The FDA, which has more stringent criteria for shortages, show 18 of 40 are on the Drug Shortage list.

"What makes the drug shortage such a challenging crisis is that no one organization or agency oversees this situation and responds accordingly, not even the FDA," Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, the director of the PRIME Institute at the University of Minnesota and co-lead report investiagtor, said in a statement."And no one area of the country is specifically hit with this problem as drugs will be allocated to those areas most in need, that is until everyone is in shortage status.

 

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This wouldn't happen under Biden.

Biden is virus of America,CCP is virus of human

I better get my inhaler than.

a lot of these drugs, not just the virus, come from China, I heard

That’s strange. Biden’s 44 years in government didn’t have contingency plans for this? What did he do since 1973?

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