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Like a lot of caregivers, Dr. Jackson Griggs has struggled to keep his medical supply rooms stocked since the start of the pandemic. When COVID-19 first emerged, Griggs, who runs Waco Family Medicine—a group of fourteen primary-care clinics in Central Texas—lacked masks and other forms of personal protective equipment. Now, also like many others, he’s short on sterile gloves, needles, and plastic tubing. But the lack of supply that most concerns him is something called IV contrast dye—a liquid injected into patients’ veins before an imaging procedure, such as a CT scan or an X-ray. Griggs says the current dye shortage, which stretches around the globe, “has an urgency to it that the other inventory needs just can’t match.”The source of the dye shortage is…

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