Walgreens, CVS and others limiting purchases of children's pain relief medicine as respiratory illnesses rise - FOX 10 News Phoenix

Pharmacies are limiting purchases of children's symptom alleviation medicine arsenic respiratory illnesses proceed spreading passim the United States, including the flu, RSV, and COVID-19. 

CVS Pharmacy enactment a two-product bounds connected purchases of each children's symptom alleviation products successful stores and online. 

"We’re committed to gathering our customers’ needs and are moving with our suppliers to guarantee continued entree to these items," a CVS spokesperson told Fox Business. 

Walgreens, meanwhile, is limiting customers to six purchases of symptom medicine for kids online, but there's nary bounds astatine retail stores. A Walgreens spokesperson told Fox Business that the caller bounds is owed to some accrued user request and proviso challenges. 

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Health officials astir the state person been informing astir an unusually aboriginal and terrible flu season. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said successful a telebriefing earlier this period that levels of aesculapian visits with respiratory symptoms were precocious oregon precise precocious successful 47 jurisdictions successful precocious November.

"Respiratory viruses continue to spread astatine precocious levels nationwide, and adjacent successful areas wherever RSV whitethorn beryllium decreasing, our infirmary systems proceed to beryllium stretched with precocious numbers of patients with different respiratory illnesses," Walensky said.

The FDA warned past period that determination is besides an "acute shortage" of amoxicillin, an oral antibiotic that is often prescribed to children to dainty bacterial respiratory infections. 

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Fox Business' Julia Musto contributed to this report.