OPINION
America must never again rely on China for our medical supplies
By Rich Lowry
April 6, 2020 | 8:27pm
A ventilator in an operating room.
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A country learns about itself in a crisis, and one revelation in the coronavirus emergency is that we can’t make our own penicillin.
The first patient successfully treated with the antibiotic was a woman suffering from sepsis in a Connecticut hospital in 1942. Her treatment took up half the country’s supply. Yet in short order we figured out how to mass produce the medicine, saving the lives of countless soldiers in World War II. Once, factories throughout the country made the stuff.
But that was a long time ago. The last US plant to make penicillin, a Bristol-Myers Squibb operation in Syracuse, shuttered in 2004.
What happened? According to Rosemary Gibson of The Hastings Center and author of the book “China Rx,” “Industry data reveal that Chinese companies formed a cartel, colluded to sell product on the global market at below market price, and drove all US, European, and Indian producers out of business.”
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