Parents can’t rely on Biden admin’s help with drugs children need

Drug shortages are scaring parents and ‘anemic response’ from the Biden administration isn’t helping. US needs to manufacture its own essential medicines.

We are still not out of the woods with these viruses, especially with holiday gatherings and there is a concern that COVID-19 cases are increasing again. But the panicked buying has taken on a life of its own that does not approximate the actual need based on how many children are actually sick. 

Defenders of the Biden administration's anemic response to the shortages of children’s Tylenol and ibuprofen claim that the problem isn’t a decreased supply, it’s an increased demand. But one would think that an administration that ordered 170 million doses of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters (less than a third of which have been used), would also make sure to shore up emergency supplies of the comfort medicines infants need when they are suddenly stuffed up and miserable.