The wave of covid in China threatens another entanglement of the US medical supply chain.
The United States is already dealing with an unrelated shortage of children's medications, including pain relievers and antibiotics. US officials and medical providers said in interviews that They were closely monitoring the situation in China and had yet to see any shortages directly related to the latest wave of infections there. Biden administration officials said they had been coordinating among federal agencies to monitor the supply chain and did not anticipate significant shortages, unlike at the start of the pandemic, due to government efforts to bolster US stockpiles and moves by companies to lessen their dependence on China. .“We are…
