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Ozempic Defined a TikTok Era. Now the App Wants It Gone (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe it's my tinfoil hat that's getting a bit tight here but...

The Chinese are fighting an obesity epidemic like most of the western world, but they have to import all the GLP-1 drugs from companies outside China. They know this will cost a fortune, just look at the US with Novo's ozempic/wegovy. But soon Eli Lilly will have a similar product on the market, and that will be the same for China. They'll have to fork over billions to economic/political adversaries for these drugs, so they want to keep that under control. This is not because they care for anyone's health and safety.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They'd just manufacture a local generic in that situation