Parents, Pharmacies Reporting Pediatric Medicine Shortages Across The Nation

I guess this is what Democrats and Biden mean when they talk about their “historic” accomplishments and the “progress” they’ve made this year. On top of historically high inflation, gas prices, crime, illegal immigration, drug overdose deaths, and a historically low economy, Biden’s America is now also seeing pediatric medicine shortages. I sure hope your child doesn’t get any kind of infection or need any kind of over-the-counter pain management because you may not be able to find it.

I hadn’t even realized this might be an issue until earlier today when I saw a post by a woman explaining that she couldn’t get the extremely common and versatile antibiotic Amoxicillin for her daughter who had just been diagnosed with strep, because the pharmacy had none and it was on back-order.

Looking at the comments, I realized this likely isn’t an isolated incident. Seems antibiotics are hard to get these days.

A lot of people mocked this lady for mentioning Ukraine in her tweet about her pharmacy lacking amoxicillin. But I think she makes a decent point. It’s not that Ukraine is at fault for our medicine shortage. It’s that it’s outrageous that we can send tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars to Ukraine but we can’t make sure we keep basic antibiotics on the shelves for our own children. That politicians can spend so much time, effort, and money caring for a foreign nation and let our pharmacy shelves run out of basic meds for our kids. It’s about priorities.

Then I came across this story by CBS about children’s medicine shortages. They explain that pharmacies and stores across the nation are experiencing a shortage of “cold, flu and fever medicines for children” which is “causing some drug store chains to limit purchases of the products.” Of course, they blame COVID and increased sickness for the shortage. And I get that. More sick kids, more meds bought, more shelves empty. But you’re telling me that they didn’t have any indication at all that there might be a higher demand for kids meds this winter? Did they do nothing to prepare for this apparent supply chain issue? They sure worked real hard to get Ukraine what they need, but it doesn’t seem like they worked all that hard to make sure we had what we might need.

And then BAM! Another one, this time interviewing a Chico, CA pharmacist saying they’re seeing a shortage of “almost everything” including “children’s medicine, behavioral medications, antibiotics, and the leading shortage is in diabetic medication. The shortage is so bad that they’re rationing the medications they do have.” Maybe we ration the money being sent to Ukraine and spend it instead on stocking shelves with meds for American children?