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Gino Agnelly, head pharmacist at Providence Hospital in Mobile, Ala., holds two boxes of sodium bicarbonate solution, a critical component of cardiac surgeries, May 16, 2017. Hospitals around the country are scrambling to stockpile vials of the drug Ñ even postponing operations or putting off chemotherapy treatments Ñ because the countryÕs only two suppliers have run out. (Meggan Haller/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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