Health & Fitness
Children's Medication Shortage Causes Drug Stores To Limit Purchases Amid "Tripledemic"
"In this holiday season, we have three problems. We have RSV, influenza and COVID-19," pediatrician 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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