Give me the list. Now. I've ticked off pharmaceuticals. I found that out. I didn't realize it really until I held a hearing right as we're entering Covid in February 2020. We don't make the precious cursor chemicals. We don't supply the active pharmaceutical ingredients to most of the drugs in America. we have enormous drug shortage of just basic things like heparin. I mean, that's just an ongoing problem. So we've got a real issue in terms of drug supply. (18:37–18:43)
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Asserts that the U.S. does not produce precursor chemicals or supply active pharmaceutical ingredients for most drugs.
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