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)
Massachusetts Democrats sent a 2nd missive to Johnson & Johnson’s CEO connected Thursday to erstwhile again request much accusation connected the shortages of children’s Tylenol and Motrin.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Democrat Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Katherine Clark and Lori Trahan sent the 2nd missive to Johnson & Johnson CEO and Chairman of the Board Joaquin Duato, claiming that the company’s archetypal effect near cardinal questions unanswered.
The radical of lawmakers sent their archetypal missive connected Jan. 12, and the institution responded connected Jan. 18.
“While your January 18th reply underscored your nationalist statements astir accrued production, provided penetration into the standard up of accumulation based connected forecasting models arsenic aboriginal arsenic April 2022, and clarified the timeline of connection with the FDA, cardinal questions stay unanswered,” they wrote.
Tylenol and Motrin are some over-the-counter medicines that are commonly utilized to relieve symptom and trim fevers. CVS and Walgreens confirmed past period that their pharmacies were limiting the purchases of Tylenol and Motrin owed to accrued request and merchandise shortages.
This shortage came successful the highest of the winter’s “tripledemic” tempest of COVID-19, influenza and RSV infections, erstwhile request for these products was high.
In the archetypal letter, the lawmakers asked Johnson & Johnson erstwhile the institution learned of the medicine shortages, however overmuch it accrued accumulation and erstwhile availability of the children’s medicine would instrumentality to normal. The radical besides asked for disposable “regional and city-by-city” information connected the shortage.
In their 2nd letter, the radical said the institution did not supply them immoderate information oregon reply erstwhile the medicine availability would instrumentality to normal. They urged Johnson & Johnson to supply answers by Feb. 3.
“As Members of Congress, we are accountable to our constituents. As they navigate this shortage and inactive conflict to find product, it is indispensable that we are capable to recognize the standard and scope of this issue,” the lawmakers wrote. “This is pertinent not lone for addressing the infinitesimal astatine manus but besides for efficaciously moving with manufacture successful concern with the FDA to guarantee this situation does not repetition itself during the adjacent acold and flu season”
Johnson & Johnson said successful their archetypal response that their faculties had been moving 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since April 2022 to conscionable the wintertime demand, which resulted successful a 50 percent summation successful accumulation year-over-year. The institution added that they person besides been successful play connection with the Food and Drug Administration implicit the contented since Dec. 7.
The Johnson & Johnson spokesperson said successful the missive that declining rates of fevers is simply a “positive development” to reconstruct inventory.
“We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and stock your interest that parents, families, and caregivers – and astir of each infants and children – may not person acceptable entree to the products they need,” the spokesperson wrote. “Fortunately, the astir caller epidemiological insights amusement a alteration successful incidences of fever implicit the past 3 weeks, which should beryllium a affirmative improvement for aboriginal retail inventory recovery.”
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