When supply chains are limited, so is our access to vaccines, PPE, and more. A global supply chain strengthens innovation, keeps costs down for American consumers, and makes us safer by ensuring that access to the medicines we need is protected – even and especially during public health crises and natural disasters. Right this minute, international research teams are working together and using raw materials from across the globe to create a vaccine for COVID-19 faster than we’ve ever seen before.
Through smart policy, we can work to increase manufacturing capabilities here in the US – without severing global ties and risking large-scale disruptions and shortages.
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Supply chain disruptions as a result of COVID-19 limit our access to food, medicines, and the products we depend on while hurting American businesses.
Take our food supply chain, for example. As food plants are forced to slow production or temporarily shut down to protect their workers while keeping America fed, shortages in supply and increases in costs due to safety requirements can result in less food and higher prices at the grocery store.
Goods are the sum of their parts. Tell Congress to fix our nation’s supply chain and protect access to the interconnected global system we rely on.
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