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Re:He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Se... by listsfrin on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:48AM (#22574887)
If it's $7 to produce why there are no new companies that sell it for $100? They'd make quite some profit.
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Re:He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Se... by hawkice on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:49AM (#22574890)
Intense regulatory barriers.

For a longer comment from a healthcare worker of note, see section 2 here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...

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Re:He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Se... by listsfrin on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:51AM (#22574907)
What do we understand from this?
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Re:He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Se... by hawkice on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:54AM (#22574927)
Probably that if someone wants to make cheap lifesaving medicine they should have an easy way to do that instead of a Kafkaesque hellscape to navigate, but I'm not sure that insight generalizes beyond "make good things easy".
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Re:He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Se... by listsfrin on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:17AM (#22575062)
We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.
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