'Kind of scary': Amoxicillin shortage has some parents panicking

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — When Erica Porell's daughter came down with a 102-degree fever last week, she immediately brought her to their family pediatrician."The fever wasn't going away, because she had a double ear infection," Porell explained.Porell, from South Kingston, Rhode Island, was expecting her daughter to be prescribed amoxicillin, an antibiotic commonly used to treat bacterial infections. But she knew something was wrong when she didn't hear back from the pediatrician, and