Daily News | Empty cold-medicine shelves in pharmacies are adding stress to parents amidst a ‘tridemic’
In recent weeks, children’s over-the-counter medication is more often than not sold out in the Target closest to Manklang’s home in Frankford. She buys multiple bottles if she finds it in stock.Between work and child care, Manklang has only a limited time for errands. Stopping at multiple stores to search for the medication is a luxury she and many other parents don’t have.His 7-year-old son, Miles, didn’t feel well, so Rashed popped out of his Brewerytown house to get some Tylenol.
Carly Goodman hasn’t worked a full week in a month because one of her two kids has come home from day care ill every week. On a recent Friday, the South Philly mother’s 6-month-old, Rose, spiked a fever, and Goodman used the last drops of her infant Tylenol. The shelves at CVS and Acme were empty. She snagged the last bottle at Target.
“I don’t know what people are supposed to do if they don’t have time to go to three stores,” she said. The shortage is one more challenge that parents have to deal with as supply chain and manufacturing issues limit access to basic necessities. Sarah Baicker in Bucks County couldn’t find cold medicine for her 10-month-old, Sydney. Standing in front of the empty shelf at the pharmacy sent her back to the
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