Health & Fitness
Children's Medication Shortage Causes Drug Stores To Limit Purchases Amid "Tripledemic"
"We never had such an amount of people getting sick at the same time," Dr. Ilan Shapiro told CBS News.
December 27, 2022
A nationwide shortage of cold, flu and fever medicines for children is causing some drug store chains to limit purchases of the products amid a "tripledemic" this holiday season.
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"In this holiday season, we have three problems. We have RSV, influenza and COVID-19. We never had such an amount of people getting sick at the same time," Dr. Ilan Shapiro, a pediatrician at AltaMed Health Services, told CBS News.
The "tripledemic" is impacting Americans like the Schoenherr family in Wisconsin. All of them had the sniffles, but their 19-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, had it the worst.
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