Even more frightening is the affect on medical supplies. According to a report by Breitbart news, “China produces and exports a large amount of pharmaceuticals to the U.S., including 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active ingredients used to make drugs here. Penicillin, ibuprofen, and aspirin largely come from China. The combination of supply chain disruptions and increased demand at hospitals if coronavirus spreads to the U.S. could prove devastating.”
An American company, 3M, produces many of the many of the essential N95 face masks needed by frontline medical workers in its China facility. What the manufacturing giant did not expect as it prepared to ship millions of masks to the United States, was the Chinese Communist Party declaring medical masks an essential government resource by nationalizing the company, forbidding the shipment to the US or any country. The video below explains the danger to the supply chain on which we are so dependent.