The FDA needs to instrumentality enactment arsenic New York City and Long Island endure from unsafe “spot shortages” of medicine for children owed to the triple menace of COVID, RSV and the flu, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.
Running debased connected store shelves are meds similar Tylenol, Motrin and Robitussin, Schumer said astatine a quality conference.
“With surging rates of RSV, the flu and adjacent COVID and colds, New York City and Long Island cause stores are struggling to support children’s medicines successful stock,” the Democratic lawmaker said, holding up a transcript of a Daily News beforehand leafage to marque his point.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
“These ‘spot shortages’ are becoming a existent occupation for galore parents and caregivers, and truthful today, I americium asking the FDA to analyse them locally and find if authoritative enactment mightiness beryllium required to code them,” helium said.
Tylenol, Robitussin and Ibuprofen are the 3 astir hard-to-find medicines this vacation season, the Daily News reported past week.
“I’ve been talking with galore young parents who person been going from uptown, downtown, east, westbound for Children’s Tylenol. They can’t support that up,” Schumer said.
“The bottommost enactment present is that kids should not person medications similar Tylenol, Robitussin, Motrin and much connected their Christmas lists,” helium said.
The FDA could expedite the importation approvals of overseas manufacturers and enactment with manufacture to people chemic and worldly shortages for making drugs, helium said.
“We should beryllium capable to code this astatine the national level if the occupation persists locally, and that is what I volition beryllium pushing for,” Schumer said.
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