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Senate Hearing on Coronavirus Crisis Exposes Dangers of US Dependence on China for Drug Sourcing

Senate Hearing on Coronavirus Crisis Exposes Dangers of US Dependence on China for Drug Sourcing
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 15, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
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WASHINGTON—Millions of Americans depend on drugs that are made in part or wholly in China because U.S. manufacturers moved their supply chains and much of their manufacturing facilities to that country, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship was told on March 12.

“Thousands of our generic drugs and even some of the brand name products and perhaps even new therapies for coronavirus may depend on the chemicals that are sourced primarily in China,” Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser to the Garrison, New York-based Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute, told the committee.

Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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