It’s not just grocery shoppers who are hoarding pantry staples. Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
Carmakers might seem unlikely candidates to build ventilators for coronavirus victims. But in fact they may be quite well-suited to churn out the highly intricate medical devices that are in critically short supply.
As the coronavirus pandemic begins to strain the U.S. medical supply chain, California startup Zipline is looking into ways to deploy sooner and at wider scale.
The U.S.-China trade war already had American companies rethinking their relationships with Chinese manufacturers. Then came two additional nails in the coffin.
