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Letter to the editor: Casey's fentanyl ad deceptive

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In Sen. Bob Casey’s political ad against Dave McCormick, he focuses on McCormick’s investment in a Chinese company making fentanyl and smuggling it to Mexico to make illegal drugs and smuggle it back into the U.S.

That company is Humanwell. Its income is between $3 billion and $4 billion per year, small compared to 10 other pharmaceutical companies in China.

Humanwell is a pharmaceutical and research and development company that makes a variety of medicines sold worldwide to hospitals and doctors by subscription approved by the FDA and other countries. Humanwell uses fentanyl in at least 19 other medicines, some of them for pain. Research has been done on Humanwell and didn’t turn up any evidence that it is involved in illegal drug smuggling.

Humanwell is listed in the New York Stock Exchange along with many other Chinese pharmaceutical companies for anyone to invest in, which McCormick did. Casey also is invested in the same company through a mutual fund.

Political ads are often full of deceptive information and flat out lies. If you own a cellphone, you’re contributing to the Chinese Communist Party war machine, because over 90% of cellphones are made in China, along with all other electronics. The CCP takes their cut.

John Lerch

Tarentum

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