CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) – Pharmacies person been dealing with a medicine shortage for the past mates of months. Now the shortage is extending to children’s symptom medicine arsenic much children are getting sick.
“For the past 2 oregon 3 weeks, I wouldn’t accidental it’s impossible,” Greg Deese said erstwhile talking astir ordering medicine. “But you spell days and days without getting either one.”
Deese, the proprietor and pharmacist astatine Oakhurst Pharmacy, conscionable received a shipment of children’s Tylenol. But the support abstraction for different brands is empty.
Area pharmacies are having to beryllium much originative to support the medicine connected the shelves for customers.
“I get up sometimes astatine six successful the greeting and effort to bid it due to the fact that if you deliberation of each the pharmacies that unfastened astatine 8 to 9, nary 1 is ordering astatine six successful the morning. I’ve besides been known to enactment up until midnight,” Deese said.
About 48 hours aft ordering this latest shipment, there’s nary medicine disposable to bid retired of 20 antithetic products, helium said.
Even larger corporations are putting limits connected purchases.
CVS is limiting customers to 2 bottles per visit.
In a statement, a CVS spokesperson talked astir the caller limits writing, “We’re committed to gathering our customer’s needs and are moving with our suppliers to guarantee continued entree to these items.”
Deese said helium is not limiting purchases, but helium knows determination whitethorn travel a clip erstwhile helium whitethorn request to archer customers helium is retired of stock.
“I’m hoping this is the valley, the bottommost due to the fact that it feels similar it,” helium said. “Again, I was capable to get immoderate disconnected and connected for a while. No, it’s precise difficult. I got a small spot successful today; I deliberation that was a fluke.”
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