Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supply

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• andreareina 1 day ago
  I'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.
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  • jsiepkes 1 day ago
    Not much money to be with it made probably. In the end scale advantage will ensure only a couple of suppliers remain.

    Hospitals could prevent this by making rules like a single supplier of these generic things can't supply more than X%.

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    • llamaimperative 1 day ago
      But then you just make subsidiaries?
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      • rapjr9 1 day ago
        They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.