Act Daily News
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After weeks of excessive demand that stretched provide, Walgreens eliminated its on-line buying limits for youngsters’s pain- and fever-reducing medicines on Monday morning, spokesperson Zoe Krey instructed Act Daily News.
Walgreens solely had limits in place on medicines bought on-line. It didn’t have limits on remedy bought in shops.
“So currently, we have no purchase limits either in-store or online,” Krey stated.
The change comes after excessive demand for youngsters’s ache and fever medicines led some shops, together with CVS and Rite Aid, to restrict purchases. A brutal respiratory virus season fueled the gross sales of children’ medicines to deal with ache and fever to 65% increased than what was typical the yr earlier than.
CVS on Monday instructed Act Daily News there may be at the moment a two product restrict on all youngsters’s ache aid merchandise at its shops and on-line. A spokesperson for the chain stated the boundaries have been in place “to ensure equitable access for all our customers,” and stated CVS was working with its suppliers to make sure continued entry to the gadgets.
Act Daily News has additionally reached out to Rite Aid for remark.
Last month, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, which represents makers of over-the-counter medicines, stated producers have been operating 24/7 to produce extra medicines to shops, however there was no timeline for when provide might catch as much as demand.
Since then, flu and RSV exercise have peaked within the US, in response to knowledge from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Covid-19 circumstances are nonetheless on the rise.
Still, flu and different respiratory virus exercise stays “high” or “very high” in about half of states, in response to CDC knowledge up to date Friday, and the US continues to deal with a number of respiratory viruses which can be circulating at excessive ranges.