Why there’s still not enough children’s Tylenol
1 big thing
Axios
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Tuesday, January 10th. I'm Naila Boone. |
| 0:08.8 | Today, the effort to restore order in Brazil and what the attack on the Capitol signals to the world. |
| 0:15.1 | But first, why there's still not enough children's Tylenol. That's today's one big thing. |
| 0:21.8 | Many parents around the U.S. still can't find children's Tylenol and Motrin. After a shortage |
| 0:32.0 | began weeks ago, right in the middle of this triple-demic of flu, RSV, and COVID. Some of you have |
| 0:38.0 | been telling us how hard this has been. My name is Adam from Weaverville, which is just north of |
| 0:43.5 | Asheville, in North Carolina. I was fortunate enough to be walking through Target and found their |
| 0:48.5 | last children's Tylenol. Sheeraluck, but yeah, it's been tricky over the last few months. |
| 0:54.2 | My name is Sarah and I'm in Greenville, South Carolina. My six-year-old had an emergency |
| 0:59.2 | epidemic in early December. We were supposed to use Tylenol as pain management when we got home |
| 1:04.4 | for him to recover and could not find any. My husband scoured multiple pharmacies, including |
| 1:12.0 | Walmart even and could not find any at all. Hi, this is Sherry from California. I'm a nurse |
| 1:17.6 | practitioner and when I heard about the Tylenol shortage, I became very concerned because |
| 1:24.5 | children's Tylenol is one that most parents are very familiar with. They know how to dose it. |
| 1:30.6 | Fear too is that they may grab something else over the counter that has Tylenol or acetaminophen in it |
| 1:38.0 | that their child based on their age should really not be taking because of the shortage. |
| 1:45.1 | Actually, this is healthcare editor Tina Reid has the story. Tina, how did this happen? |
| 1:49.4 | The short answer is this has just been a really awful respiratory virus season. It's not just |
| 1:54.3 | that it's hit really hard, but it hit really early this year. And so that actually started |
| 2:00.3 | creating a ripple effect throughout the US in terms of getting some of these medications that we |
| 2:05.7 | commonly would use. The sales were up 65% in November 2022 over the same month in 2021. We don't have |
| 2:13.2 | December numbers yet, but we're expecting they'll probably be very similar. At the same time, |
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