Southern Californian’s moving to their section pharmacy to prime up immoderate acold and flu medicine are coming crossed an unwelcome sight, bare shelves.
KTLA newsman Annie Rose Ramos traveled to respective stores successful Burbank searching for children’s acold remedies but was unsuccessful.
An worker astatine 1 pharmacy said they hadn’t had Children’s Tylenol successful weeks and weren’t expecting different shipment anytime soon.
Even a cheque of Amazon showed a 2 week hold for Children’s Tylenol deliveries.
The shortage comes arsenic the Southland is being deed by a trio of viruses, including the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified California arsenic having “high” flu levels.
Shortages successful fever reducers similar Motrin and Tylenol has wellness officials concerned.
“It’s precise hard to find a substitute for a fever reducer,” UCLA Health pediatrician Anu Seshadri told the LAist.
In Los Angeles County, wellness officials are besides keeping an oculus connected a increasing fig of COVID-19 cases.
“These numbers intelligibly show that COVID is inactive with us,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a caller quality conference.
“Given some the increases successful hospitalizations and the deficiency of certainty successful the wintertime trajectory for COVID-19. Continuing immoderate communal consciousness mitigation strategies that we cognize enactment to bounds transmission and illness, including masking and being up to day connected vaccines and boosters, remains a precise sensible approach,” she said.
Ferrer suggested it would instrumentality a crisp summation successful COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations earlier different disguise mandate would beryllium considered.
Still, the nationalist was urged to enactment up to day connected booster shots and lavation hands frequently.
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