Coronavirus a real threat to the global drug supply

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The frightening speed with which the coronavirus appears to be spreading, and the Chinese authorities’ response to it, is having a predictable impact on transport systems – we have seen it before during similar events, but what is more profoundly disturbing is that there appears to be very little ability to accurately assess just vulnerable the rest of the world is to the disruptions. In the case of critical medicines, naturally, this is rather unsettling, as this report in Wired ...