Shortages of key medications used to treat common childhood illnesses like flu, ear infections and sore throats are adding to the misery of this year’s early and severe respiratory virus season.
“Right now, we are having severe shortages of medications. There’s no Tamiflu for children. There’s barely any Tamiflu for adults. And this is brand-name and generic,” said Renae Kraft, a relief pharmacist in Oklahoma City. Additionally, “as far as antibiotics go, there’s not a whole lot.” Kraft often works in rural areas of the state, floating between pharmacies when extra help is needed. On Monday, she worked in Holdenville, where there are two pharmacies: Pruett’s and Walmart.
Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Companies work to resolve shortages Pharmaceutical companies that make generic drugs don’t usually keep stocks of those medications on shelves. Instead, they manufacture medicines based on orders placed earlier in the year. This year’s orders didn’t anticipate the heavy season for respiratory illnesses, some manufacturers said.
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