Key points from article :
United States relies on foreign trade for many medical needs. About 30 essential items, these include hospital supplies like IV bags and everyday drugs, are made outside of the U.S.
A pandemic in India or China could keep people home from work, which would impact manufacturing.
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy asserts:
"If anything happens to disrupt the supply, we wouldn’t have any of it. We would suddenly see a tremendous amount of collateral damage."
