Shanghai COVID Lockdowns Devastate US Medical Imaging Supply


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A coronavirus lockdown of a production plant in Shanghai, China, has caused a shortage of medical dye that is affecting hospitals in the U.S. and around the world. Reuters paraphrased a spokesman for General Electric (GE) Healthcare as saying that “the weeks-long outage at the company’s Shanghai production plant due to the city’s COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] lockdown is not only affecting U.S. hospitals but also other world regions it did not specify, though to a less [sic] extent.” Some of America’s biggest hospitals last week braced themselves for major shortages of medical dye that is needed in imaging technology and...