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Children’s medication shortage leads to limits on sales

Biden administration to release prescription flu meds from strategic national stockpile

12/21/2022

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Children’s medication shortage leads to limits on sales

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Biden administration to release prescription flu meds from strategic national stockpile

Pharmacists are doing their best to provide customers with alternative solutions amid a severe shortage of children’s medication this cold and flu season. With the country experiencing a so-called tripledemic of flu, RSV and COVID-19, many kids are showing symptoms of all three, and medications to treat these conditions can't stay on the shelves.

12/21/2022

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