A sign reads ‘We’re sorry’ in a children’s pain and fever remedy section of a CVS pharmacy on December 6, 2022 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Luke 21:11 “There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”
Important Takeaways:
- CVS, Walgreens limit kids’ pain and fever medicine amid shortage
- CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., two of the largest US pharmacy chains, are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicines amid constrained supplies and high demand.
- Pediatric medicines containing acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which relieve pain and reduce fever, have been hard to come by across the US and Canada since at least October as respiratory viruses spread.
- Rates of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and influenza have reached heights not seen in recent years. The drugs don’t kill the viruses, but they do relieve symptoms.
- More US children had been hospitalized in 2022 for influenza as of Dec. 10 than in any other year since 2009, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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