Businesses stockpiing drug to protect employees
Massachusetts and federal public health officials are criticizing some private companies for stockpiling flu medicine for employees and families.
Boston-law law firm Ropes and Gray is one company that made arrangements for hundreds of its employees and their families to obtain the antiviral medicine Tamiflu to protect them from swine flu.
They say it’s to protect their staff, but some doctors say it could hurt the public.
Dr. Steven Esrick, the Medical Director of the Valley Medical Group told 22News that stockpiling happens because Tamiflu is most effective if it’s taken within 48 hours.
But, he said “the problem is if a lot of people take it when they don’t need it, it will increase the resistance and make it useless.”
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