The coronavirus outbreak in China reached a milestone last week with the sharpest one-day increase of new cases yet, 14,840 in Hubei province. It’s a sign that things will get worse before they get better.
As the world watches China grapple with an unprecedented crisis, here at home the alarm is waking up some in Washington to a shocking vulnerability in our nation’s health security. The U.S. depends on China for thousands of chemicals needed to make prescription drugs; in fact, we depend on China for 80 percent of the core components to make our generic medicines. And today, generics represent some 90 percent of all prescriptions dispensed here in the U.S.
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