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At the beginning of the pandemic, the US and many countries were caught by a serious shortage of PPEs. They were surprised to find that PPEs were mostly manufactured by and imported from just one country, and quick imports were hampered by the pandemic and the exporting countrys own needs. Based on materials from Week 6 (Gary Hamilton) and 7 (James Fallows) and the three articles here (NIH.gov., OECD, Research Technology), discuss the pros and cons of globalization as revealed by the global PPE crisis in 2020
