Pharmacies are running out of antibiotics, antivirals and pediatric cold and flu medications — just as the worst flu season in over a decade is colliding with RSV and a rebound of COVID cases.
Health systems and pharmacies are running out of antibiotics like amoxicillin and other commonly used drugs just as the worst flu season in more than a decadeIt highlights the U.S. vulnerabilities, yet again, when it comes to its ability to supply some of the most basic health care products — even children's Motrin.
"That definitely affects us in the emergency department because these are the types of things we prescribe for kids to go home with and we get calls ... with the parent saying: 'I'm at my third pharmacy and they don't have amoxicillin. They don't have augmentin. What do I do?'" In Utah, stores are running out of children's Tylenol and pharmacists are trying to reformulate adult doses of antivirals like Tamiflu,Parents have been calling, distraught over the trouble they've had securing everything from Children's Tylenol to amoxicillin to Tamiflu, Harni Patel, a pharmacist and owner of Tamarac Pharmacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, told theThe surge of illness and the shortages of children's medications led the University of Kansas Health System to warn...
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