Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by throwaway894345 on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:42PM
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I really hope this virus prompts our disaster management agencies to get their shit together, and specifically to consider supply chain security as part of their threat model (and no, we don't meaningfully do this or we wouldn't have such a pitiful national reserve of respirators and other respiratory treatment devices following SARS and MURS). Not sure exactly what this would look like, but identifying key partners in industry and working with them to enable them to turn-key ramp up production seems obvious.
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How could our disaster management agencies have gotten their shit together to anticipate a run on an old anit-malaria drug?
Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by throwaway894345 on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:59PM
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Optimize for the aspects of the supply chain that don't depend on the specific drug. For example, the packaging of pills probably doesn't need to vary that much in general.
But the point isn't that we are prepared for every eventuality (e.g., chloroquine), but that we are doing due diligence in preparing for the likely eventualities (e.g., general purpose respiratory treatments like ventilators).