A motion is placed adjacent the conception for children’s medicine, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022 astatine a CVS successful Greenlawn, N.Y. Caring for a sick kid has go adjacent much stressful than accustomed for galore U.S. parents successful caller weeks owed to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and different medicines. (AP Photo/Leon Keith)
A radical of Massachusetts Democrats connected Thursday demanded answers from Johnson & Johnson regarding the shortages of children’s Tylenol and Motrin amid the existent respiratory viral season, wanting to cognize erstwhile the medicines’ availability volition instrumentality to normal.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), on with Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Katherine Clark and Lori Trahan, issued their missive to Joaquin Duato, CEO and president of the committee for Johnson & Johnson.
“Our constituents crossed Massachusetts are experiencing a shortage of babe and children’s Tylenol and Motrin products arsenic this challenging acold and flu play rages on, compounded by a surge of respiratory syncytial microorganism (RSV) and COVID-19,” they wrote.
Tylenol and Motrin are some over-the-counter medications commonly utilized arsenic symptom relievers and fever reducers, sold arsenic marque sanction versions of ibuprofen and acetaminophen respectively.
Demand for these medicines has gone up successful caller weeks arsenic parents woody with the ongoing flu season, which came earlier than accustomed this year, arsenic good arsenic the surge successful RSV cases. Cases and hospitalizations for some viruses look to declining, according to the astir caller information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In effect to the rising demand, galore pharmacies placed limits connected the magnitude of the medicines that customers could bargain astatine once.
“While aesculapian providers are doing their champion to triage in-person attraction and supply guidance connected at-home remedies for monitoring and treatment, determination is nary uncertainty that these medicines are essential,” said the lawmakers.
On some the websites for Tylenol and Motrin, Johnson & Johnson states it continues to acquisition “high user request driven by an highly challenging acold & flu season.” While acknowledging that customers are having trouble uncovering their products in-store, the institution said it is “not experiencing wide shortages” of either medicines.
The lawmakers successful their missive demanded to cognize erstwhile the institution became alert of the medicine shortages, however overmuch accumulation has accrued and erstwhile availability is expected to instrumentality to normal. They besides requested disposable “regional and city-by-city” information connected the shortage.
The Hill has reached retired to Johnson & Johnson for comment.
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