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Al Jazeera
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Andy Hirschfeld

What is behind the insulin shortage in the US?

More than 38.4 million people in the United States have diabetes and rely on insulin for their survival [File: Carlo Allegri/Reuters]

Skye Murphy, who is 22 years old, has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 14. In the past month, she learned that there would be a 30-to-60-day delay in receiving her medication Humalog, an insulin drug made by Eli Lilly.

While announcing a shortage in March, Eli Lilly said several key insulin medications would be out of stock for several weeks, which, as reported by CNN, was because of a “brief delay in manufacturing”. The company has since scrubbed details on the shortage from the news release.

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