An analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University finds China supplies US drug manufacturers with more than 60% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make antibiotics.
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Additional authorities and resources are needed to develop a manufacturer resiliency assessment program and hospital resilient supply program, HHS says.
The group requested details on implementation progress by April 1.
The CDC recommends that healthcare providers use the Tdap vaccine rather than the Td vaccine in patients without a pertussis vaccine contraindication.
Sixteen countries are struggling to contain outbreaks of the deadly illness, and the ability to make more vaccine is limited to its sole manufacturer.
In the event of administrative removal of these products, clinicians and consumers could substitute oral pseudoephedrine or intranasal decongestants such as phenylephrine or oxymetazoline, the authors say.
As of 2022, 58% of makers of drugs bound for the US market were located overseas, the report notes.
It's unknown when supplies of the Pfizer's penicillin G drug will be replenished.
As a result of the supply interruptions, 6% of all programs reported negative patient outcomes.
Disease severity climbed significantly from before the pandemic to 2021 and 2022 to 2023 among children younger than 6 months to 1 year.
Health officials are releasing 77,000 more doses, with supply stretched by higher-than-expected demand for the new tool for protecting newborns.
