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Why Sales of Cold Medicine Are Crashing This Winter
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2 min readFeb 1, 2021
46%: That’s how much U.S. sales of over-the-counter cold, flu, and cough medicine declined in the five week period ending Dec 26, 2020 from the same period last year, according to data from Nielsen, reported by Bloomberg.