India & China the Reason For Mask and Ventilator Shortage

Wall Street Journal wrote today, “In yet an­other chal­lenge to the wis­dom of glob­al­iza­tion, the U.S. scram­ble for sur­gi­cal masks, N95 res­pi­ra­tors and ven­ti­la­tors is high­light­ing the down­sides of re­ly­ing on to­day’s in­tri­cate sup­ply chains for crit­i­cal med­ical goods. On Tues­day, Amer­i­cans learned that, even with the coun­try nearly shut down, deaths from Covid-19 caused by the new coro­n­avirus could to­tal 100,000 to 240,000. China, the most pop­u­lous na­tion in the world and among the most densely pop­u­lated, has re­ported a death toll of less than 4,000. But as in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor—highly de­pen­dent on Chi­nese and In­dian pro­duc­ers—a re­liance on global sup­ply chains is also mak­ing life dif­fi­cult for West­ern hos­pitals strug­gling to source gear.” Full story below:

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