Using Medicines as Leverage for Global Power
Over the past 30 years, a lot of drug manufacturing has been offshore, with generics comprising 90% of the medicines Americans consume.
There is a growing reliance on China for essential drugs.
The US no longer makes penicillin, for example, with the last US penicillin plant closing in 2004.
The US has virtually no capacity to make generic antibiotics used to treat ear infections, strep throat, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, sexually transmitted diseases, Lyme disease, and other illnesses.
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