Hospitals told us that even though they could not get the drug from their authorized distributors, they were being inundated with phone calls, e-mails, and faxes from gray market companies offering this shortage drug and others at highly inflated prices.
Cummings discusses hospitals' struggles with gray market drug offers during shortages.
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