Prognosis
Hand Sanitizer Will Be Hard to Find for a Long Time
- Not enough chemicals and plastic containers to meet demand
- The health sector is also getting first dibs on production
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Companies across the U.S. have noticed that we’re all hunting for hand sanitizer and have started producing more, yet it’s still proving difficult to find and availability is unlikely to improve anytime soon.
According to the companies making the alcohol-based hand cleaner, higher production isn’t translating into more supply in part because there aren’t enough of the plastic bottles to package it. A key compound used in the process is also in short supply.