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Speculations that US companies will cut China out by reshoring supply chains seem unlikely and expensive, a university professor said on Thursday. 

How should companies manage their supply chains in today’s uncertain environment? 

The impact of Covid-19 is much bigger, affecting consumer demand as well as supply chains all over the world, and likely to last quite a bit longer.

Companies like Tyson and Smithfield Foods warn of a "breaking" supply chain "perilously close to the edge", but experts say there's plenty of meat.

The viral infection (COVID-19) and subsequent closures are straining the supply of meat to market. Beef production is down 25% and pork has declined 15% from a year ago, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Despite the closure of more than 20 meatpacking plants due to COVID-19, experts say the U.S. food supply is not in peril.

MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi speaks with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu and Romaine Bostick on the collapse of the food supply chain and the crash in oil. 

Why shoppers don’t need to panic-buy at the supermarket.... As the pandemic began, Americans lined up by the hundreds to panic buy staples like 20-pound bags of rice and peanut butter at Costco. Shelf-stable, freeze-dried provisions normally marketed to campers and doomsday survivalists flew off the shelves at outdoor companies.

There is a growing push in the U.S. o re-open the economy, but when is the right time?  Professor Yossi Sheffi spoke with CGTN America's Roee Ruttenberg about his perspective on reopening the U.S. economy and steps to take.

Despite Smithfield Foods' dire warning, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi says the Sioux Falls closure is "not a big deal for the supply chain."

As we struggle to come to terms with the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the most frustrating sights is witnessing front-line health-care workers begging for more masks, protective gowns, testing kits, ventilators and intensive-care beds...The woeful performance of these health-care supply chains raises the question of how such glaring shortages happened. And just as important: How do we ensure that this doesn’t happen again?