users are willing to pay premium so we're prepared for future pandemics. >> reporter: it's still early days, but experts say it is essential that the u.s. makes more of its ppe at home. the question is -- >> whether people will remember this and be willing to pay that premium in the medium tomorrow or just a very short-term memory and soon people will go back to thinking who's my lowest price supplier. >> reporter: that might ultimately determine the success or failure of these new enterprises. whether they're expensive experiments or beginning of a new era reducing america's dependence on factories from the other side of the world. no one is complaining about u.s. government investment in domestic ppe production, but no one we interviewed for this story thinks that is a viable long-term solution either. the medical supply chain expert you heard from in the story thinks that the government instead ought to be negotiating better trade deals to make sure that standards and wages in asia
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