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#China: "This is a threat to kill Americans, by withholding medicines…If that’s not a wake-up call, I don’t know what is.”

@Rosemary100, author of "China Rx," on why it’s dangerous 80% of key drug components are from #China. #ATL🇺🇸

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The dangers of sourcing drugs from #China:

Hundreds of Americans died in '07 & '08 from contaminated heparin.

One American, “within 11 minutes of getting those doses, his heart began to fail.”

@Rosemary100 on #AmericanThoughtLeaders 🇺🇸

“We’re so dependent that we can’t even make antibiotics…[#China] undercut other companies [by subsidizing their own]…That’s how we lost our penicillin capability & the production of generic antibiotics.”

@Rosemary100 on #AmericanThoughtLeaders🇺🇸

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Despite #China's threat to withhold medicines, Big Pharma has opposed a potential “Buy American” executive order.

They're "telling the American people…to be more dependent on this entity that’s threatened to kill you," says @Rosemary100 on #ATL🇺🇸

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“The free market will not fix this…We’re undercut by Chinese companies that are subsidized by their government.”

The U.S. government should support drug manufacturing in America, says "China Rx" author @Rosemary100.

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Will producing drugs in America cost more?

No, argues @Rosemary100: “Once the investment is made in new infrastructure, new equipment, we can actually make generic drugs at least 20% cheaper” than Chinese companies do.

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#CCPvirus: “In the big…$2 trillion [bill], there was no money for the manufacturing of medicine.”

The U.S. has funneled money towards making ventilators, respirators, masks, and gloves. But not medicine.

@Rosemary100 on #AmericanThoughtLeaders

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