Run on drug used for some coronavirus patients shorts longtime users

Rachel Flanagan hadn’t even left a doctor’s office with her 14-year-old daughter’s new prescription when she received a text from a CVS pharmacist: the hydroxychloroquine needed to treat the teen’s lupus was unavailable.
Flanagan, 35, spent about three hours shuttling to other drugstores hunting for the medication about a week ago before she finally found a 30-day supply at a Vons Pharmacy in Murrieta.
“Drugstores have the medication but don’t want to give it