NEW YORK -- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is demanding the Food and Drug Administration investigate the nationwide drug shortage affecting children.
Parents are now concerned over empty shelves at pharmacies instead of toy stores this time of year.
"We shouldn't be going on a scavenger hunt just to meet the basic needs of our child, to find formula, to find Children's Tylenol. It shouldn't be this hard," said Marisa Dan of Kip's Bay. Her 10-month-old daughter Ayelet's first winter will be during a tridemic, when there's a national shortage on children's meds like Tylenol and Motrin.
"They keep telling you it's on backorder. It's frustrating. It's frustrating because you can't do anything to help your child," added Jennifer Maggio of Miller Place on Long Island. Schumer has been in touch with the FDA about this and has a few possible solutions in mind, starting with asking for permission to get help from overseas.
"It's called BARDA, B-A-R-D-A, to bring in supplies from other countries until our shortages are alleviated. Second, they should look where the bottlenecks are. They should consider temporarily licensing new companies under the strictest of safety conditions to produce these drugs in the short term," Schumer said.
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