Manchin Won't Intervene to Keep WV's Largest Generic Drug Plant Open

By Laura Flanders, The Nation

Mylan’s workers were informed that the company’s new owners were closing the Morgantown flagship plant and shifting the work to India or Australia, effective July 31, 2021. …Mylan Pharmaceuticals pumps out around 18 billion doses a year of lifesaving generic drugs.

…Why hasn’t West Virginia’s senior senator, Joe Manchin, made an effort to keep the plant open? Does it have anything to do with the fact that his daughter, Heather Bresch, was a top executive at Mylan for almost eight years, and worked there for almost three decades?