26,000 new admissions this week right after thanksgiving. it s not clear if that was the peak. respiratory virus activity remains high or very high in almost every state. the cdc estimates 18 million people have come down with the flu this season, and 12,000 have died. but if you re looking for cold or fever medicines for your child, you may find empty store shelves. a shortage of over the counter medicines for children has parents scrambling. a surge in respiratory illnesses is driving up demand, and pharmacies are struggling with low supplies or none at all. cnn s athena jones has details. it s brutal for all of us. reporter: melissa s 18-month-old twins are teething. we had an incident where one didn t eat for three days because he had so much pain. reporter: lately, she s struggled to find medicines to treat her boys, who generally fall ill at the same time. every drugstore within
Us. reporter: melissa s 18-month-old twins are teeth oohing, a painful process. we just had an incident a few days ago where one of them didn t eat for three days. reporter: the brooklyn mother has struggled to find medicines to treat her boysi, walt and henry. every drugstore within walking distance of me is totally bare. my husband did have to drive across brooklyn. reporter: as communities battle a surge in respiratory illnesses like the flu, covid-19, and rsv which can be particularly dangerous for young children increased demand is driving a shortfall across the country of prescription and over the counter medicines for children, the result empty shelves and limits on the amount of medicine you can buy at cvs, walgreen s and rite aid leaving parents and pharmacists frustrated and concerned. they get really bad fevers our kids, i was pretty scared. nowhere over here they didn t have anything in stock, so i had
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There was a little jockeying at first. two women, one man. even if one of the women was just 3. our first date, alyssa was there. we were eating and i was trying to talk to ben and get to know him and she was like don t talk to my dad. i remember meeting her and i didn t really like her. she was talking to my dad. more than talking to him as it turned out, ben and melissa moved in together a month later. the sort of thing a 3-year-old finds hard to understand. she said i love you and i said don t talk to my dad that way. as we said, it was a love story for both of them. as jamie is the friend and future bride s maid put it he was truly her best friend. he was the best dad. that s all he cared about was a lisz a. that was his sprirt was to take care of her. melissa and ben and a lisz a.
sure enough when they tested him for residue or cast off, he was clean. could not have fired the gun. back to melissa. melissa, understand that i m not blaming you. i m asking you to help solve the problem, okay? there was blood on melissa and gunshot residue. just the truth is all i hope to get. melissa s friend, jamie, was there when she came out of the interrogation room. melissa just dropped to the floor when she saw me and she had a little bit of blood on her. she just said i didn t do this.