CVS and Walgreens are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicine amid rising cases of flu, Covid-19 and RSV.

“Due to increased demand and various supplier challenges, over-the-counter pediatric fever reducing products are seeing constraint across the country,” Walgreens said in a statement, adding that the purpose of the limits are to support availability and avoid excess purchases.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association said sales of pediatric pain relievers are up 65% from this time last year. Meanwhile, the brutal respiratory virus season is continuing to strain pediatric hospitals. Young children are particularly vulnerable to RSV, which has hospitalized more than 4 out of every 1,000 children younger than 5 this season, according to data from CDC.

Source: {Matzav.com}