Pharmacies are running out of fever-reducing medicines for children like Tylenol and Motrin with more kids sick battling a cold, flu, RSV or COVID.
pharmacies, then finally found some at Safeway," mother Jessenia Vargas whose son was sick said. "It was a challenge so we kind of resorted to cough drops for kids versus medicine."President Ken Thai said the winter virus season is especially bad this year, creating a shortfall in medications.
"I’d say in the last two and a half to three weeks, it has been out," he said. " Every wholesaler we can think of to get inventory has been saying there are no allocations, there’s nothing available."is not reporting shortages of ibuprofen or acetaminophen – the active ingredients in those medicines.
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