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Opinion: Expanding the domestic public health supply chain is a matter of national security
One of the many hard lessons learned from Covid-19 has been that a robust and resilient domestic public health industrial base is essential to the health and security of the United States.
Early in 2020, as the pandemic emerged in the U.S., hospital executives; nursing home directors; clinicians; federal, state, and local officials; and so many others scrambled to get shipments of masks, gowns, and other personal protection supplies from around the world. Companies racing to develop diagnostic tests, therapeutics, and vaccines competed against each other for raw materials and supplies necessary for manufacturing.
