Medicine shortages in light of COVID-19: a wake-up call for drug security
Even if Canada does not have official coronavirus shortages today, we are vulnerable to them. Let us use this pandemic as a wake-up call to finally pay attention to the problem of drug shortages plaguing health-care delivery for years and now threatening to jeopardize our response to COVID-19.
KINGSTON, ONT.—Recently, the global number of shortages, pending and actual, is increasing—especially in the United States—and coronavirus is to blame. In Canada, we are seeing concerning trends for COVID-19-related medications. With the pandemic, shortages arise at both ends of the supply cha...
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