A new season of infections is here, but the shortage of a common kids’ antibiotic never ended

A new season of infections is here, but the shortage of a common kids’ antibiotic never ended | CNN Parents across the US are beginning to face the struggles of a second winter without enough supplies of amoxicillin, the most prescribed antibiotic in the country. Brenda Goodman CNN

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“When there are these big surges in respiratory viral illness, in ear infections and all the things that come with the winter months of the last year or two, the demand has really outweighed what our supply chains can produce. And as a result, the shortages are cropping up all over the country and affecting our patients,” said Dr. Rohan Khazanchi, a pediatrician and medical resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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