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A combination of flu, Covid, and respiratory viruses has created a miserable winter sickness cocktail with which the whole world can ring in the new year.

That's good news for drug companies slinging over-the-counter cold medicine, but bad news for local pharmacy shelves increasingly barren of Theraflu, NyQuil, and Tylenol. The disappointment of flu sufferers unable to score meds is unlikely to be ameliorated by medical experts' recent declaration that most decongestant remedies are totally useless.

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Source Fool.com