Pharmacies across the country are seeing shortages of hundreds of medicines, including critically important antibiotics, as the height of cold and flu season nears.
According to the FDA, 123 of 184 listed drugs are currently in some kind of shortage.
Charles Tabouchirani, the owner of Cherry’s Pharmacy on East 66th on Manhattan’s Upper East Side says his store has been sharply affected.
“Our shelves have never been empty,” Tabouchirani said. “It’s affecting the way we dispense medication, it’s affecting the way doctors, providers are trying to manage and prescribing the medication.”
Tamiflu, Adderall, and even the standard antibiotic amoxicillin in liquid form are getting hard to find.