A cyberattack against a healthcare tech giant shut down people's access to their medications all across the country, including in the Triangle and Sandhills.
Some pharmacies around the Triangle are seeing long lines and swallowing the tough pill of dealing with a labor shortage. Even big retailers, like Walgreens, are slashing pharmacy hours.
Some families are having a hard time finding medication and wheelchairs as the supply-chain crunch continues to cause problems across the nation.
"The lady said, 'you didn't get COVID-19 vaccine on August 5. I said, 'yes I did' and I pointed at the lady who gave it to me and she said 'no, you got meningitis.'
Some pharmacies in Durham and Raleigh are reporting an uptick in people getting their COVID-19 vaccines.
The $26 billion national settlement announced Wednesday with pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson and three other companies that distributed opioid painkillers as addiction and overdose deaths went up exponentially.