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Is it though? While there has been incremental evidence of companies reshoring some operations or nearshoring them to Mexico, for example the overall picture is more complicated. Effectively responding to a global pandemic requires global action. Autarky is a word you don’t hear much any more, and for good reason. The rapid production of billions of single-use syringes to deliver vaccines won’t be accomplished solely within our shores. And let’s not forget that the Pfizer vaccine is actually a multinational achievement it should properly be called the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and BioNTech is a German company. Disentangling the global supply chain won’t happen overnight, and the impulse to do so may well fade once business gets back to some kind of normal.