US FDA warns of drug shortage due to COVID-19

28 February 2020

The US Food and Drug Administration has warned that it has been alerted by an unnamed manufacturer to a shortage of a human drug, due to manufacturing disruptions in part of China affected by COVID-19.

The FDA says there are other alternatives that can be used by patients, and that it is working with the manufacturer, as well as other manufacturers, to mitigate the shortage.

The announcement comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) upped its global risk assessment for COVID-19 from “high” to “very high,” a measure of the potential spread and impact of the novel coronavirus.

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