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Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-07/why-it-s-so-difficult-to-produce-100-american-made-medical-gloves
21•helsinkiandrew•1h ago

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atombender•31m ago
https://archive.is/wtC7m
karakoram•19m ago
A very important question to ask.

Should the US make medical gloves?

Hikikomori•18m ago
1-200% tariff applied at random if you don't.
tonyedgecombe•15m ago
Also what the cost is. If the US really wants to reshore this sort of work then it will become materially poorer.
barrenko•13m ago
Yeah, you should make stuff medical staff needs.
kaashif•12m ago
Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic...

If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE.

And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.

raverbashing•7m ago
It's amazing how much those spreadsheet heads know nothing about how the actual world works
jofzar•10m ago
Looks like most/all manufacturing happens in the SEA/China, so I can see the logic that it could be considered a military risk for it to not be manufactured/possibility to scale manufacturing in America.
taneq•8m ago
Is this the new “China can’t manufacture a ball point pen”? (Which I strongly suspect they can do at this point. :)
cherryteastain•4m ago
How are these types of awards usually structured? Are they just grants? If so, doesn't that create a perverse incentive to take the money even if you never intend to deliver the result?

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Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove

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