Covid-19 roundup: Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion prep­ping ex­ec or­der to re­duce re­liance on for­eign man­u­fac­tur­ing of 'essen­tial med­i­ci­nes'

Back when Pres­i­dent Trump was cham­pi­oning the po­ten­tial of the malar­ia drug hy­drox­y­chloro­quine, he con­vinced the In­di­an gov­ern­ment to re­lax its ex­port re­stric­tions to sup­ply the Unit­ed States. In­deed, most gener­ic ther­a­pies in the coun­try are man­u­fac­tured in In­dia and Chi­na — and now, as the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic puts this de­pen­dence in the spot­light, the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­port­ed­ly work­ing on mak­ing sure cer­tain es­sen­tial drugs are made at home.

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