Foreign Reliance for Medicines and Supplies a National Emergency?

Coronavirus impacts a jittery market and reveals U.S. inability to protect its citizens and its economy

A woman sorts medicine in the pharmacy of the Yueyang Hospital, part of the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in Shanghai, Nov. 7, 2018. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

With the coronavirus outbreak, we may be in the early stages of what some scientists and epidemiologists say could be a potential global pandemic. That sounds ominous, to say the least. Furthermore, with markets repeatedly setting new and record-breaking highs, many market experts think that a correction is likely in 2020.