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COVID-19 and the "Just-in-Time" Supply Chain: Why Hospitals Ran Out of Ventilators and Grocery Stores Ran Out of Toilet Paper

Proyect, Louis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/covid-19-and-the-just-in-time-supply-chain-why-hospitals-ran-out-of-ventilators-and-grocery-stores-ran-out-of-toilet-paper/

Publisher:  Counterpunch
Date Written:  03/04/2020
Year Published:  2020  
Resource Type:  Article

On March 25th, 2020, N.Y. Times op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about “How the World's Richest Country Ran Out of a 75-Cent Face Mask.” The subtitle certainly went against the grain of what you’d read from a page dominated by Thomas Friedman: "A very American story about capitalism consuming our national preparedness and resiliency."

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