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Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves

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Re: Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves

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A very important question to ask. Should the US make medical gloves?

Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic...

If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE.

And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.

Re: Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves

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A very important question to ask. Should the US make medical gloves?

Looks like most/all manufacturing happens in the SEA/China, so I can see the logic that it could be considered a military risk for it to not be manufactured/possibility to scale manufacturing in America.

Re: Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves

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post #7

A very important question to ask. Should the US make medical gloves?

Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic... If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE. And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.

It's amazing how much those spreadsheet heads know nothing about how the actual world works
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