Networks of parents are trading boxes of face masks for bottles of Purell.
Rather, it’s the panicked public buying up hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohol, masks, latex gloves and other items that families of medically fragile kids need to keep their homes safe year-round, but especially during cold and flu season.
“Everybody is willing to share what they have because we all have to make it through this together,” Wolff, 31, who lives in Champaign, Illinois, told TODAY Parents.Across the country in Mission Viejo, California, Bree Vasquez never thought she’d have to worry about having enough medical supplies to protect her medically fragile son, Max.
Lily’s storyWolff’s daughter Lily was born at 24 weeks gestation in August 2018 due to intrauterine growth restriction, a condition that claimed the life of Lily’s twin. Those supplies, delivered to the house each month, started being listed as “out of stock” last month. Wolff is grateful that between her local friends and her friends on Instagram, her family is “pretty set” on supplies for now.
The family relies on large amounts of rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizer to keep germs out of the house, but those items started disappearing from stores weeks ago as the coronavirus outbreak grew.
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