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After weeks of excessive demand that stretched provide, Walgreens eliminated its on-line buying limits for kids’s pain- and fever-reducing medicines on Monday morning, spokesperson Zoe Krey instructed CNN.
Walgreens solely had limits in place on medicines bought on-line. It didn’t have limits on remedy bought in shops.
“So at the moment, now we have no buy limits both in-store or on-line,” Krey stated.
The change comes after excessive demand for kids’s ache and fever medicines led some shops, together with CVS and Ceremony Support, to restrict purchases. A brutal respiratory virus season fueled the gross sales of children’ medicines to deal with ache and fever to 65% greater than what was typical the yr earlier than.
Final month, the Shopper Healthcare Merchandise Affiliation, which represents makers of over-the-counter medicines, stated producers have been working 24/7 to produce extra medicines to shops, however there was no timeline for when provide may catch as much as demand.
Since then, flu and RSV exercise have peaked within the US, based on information from the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Covid-19 circumstances are nonetheless on the rise.
Nonetheless, flu and different respiratory virus exercise stays “excessive” or “very excessive” in about half of states, based on CDC information up to date Friday, and the US continues to deal with a number of respiratory viruses which are circulating at excessive ranges.
