Drug Shortages Aren't New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look
Briefly

Shortages persist because of complex structural problems.Take, for instance, one that the pandemic briefly made visible: the reality that many American medications are manufactured somewhere else, at the end of long supply chains.In some cases, the raw materials, known as active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, come from offshore, primarily India and China.
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