CVS Limits Sale Of Kids Medicine As Bad Flu Season Sparks Shortage

Doctors and other health experts say the problem will continue through the winter, which officially begins this week, and the annual cold-and-flu season.
However, they also said the shortage is not expected to last as long as recent ones for baby formula or prescription drugs.
Contributing factors in the shortage of children’s non-prescription medicine include an unusually fast start to the annual U.S. flu season and the rise this year of other respiratory illnesses including RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus.
“There are more sick kids at this time of year than we have seen in the past couple years,” said Dr. Shannon Dillon, a pediatrician at Riley Children’s Health in Indianapolis.

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