it s unclear where that s going. even with all these attention to these air lifts, parents may not see shelves looking very different. it s going to take a while until they really notice the things are getting better. more babies are being hospitalized due to the shortage. what do we know about their condition? could we see even more infants going to the hospital? i think we could unfortunately because this shortage is going to continue for a while. the babies that we have heard of, jake, they have conditions. and some of them are actually children. they have medical conditions where they need a very, very specific formula, and their parents tried to find replacements and they couldn t. and the children didn t tolerate it well. and so the children got dehydrated. they re now being fed on tubes into their stomachs. i m not saying there are a lot of these children out there. we don t have a number, but we have heard from a number of hospitals that this is going on, includin
the majority of what we have seen is when patients are on specialized formulas for, like, feeding intolerance or milk protein allergies or something specific related to their disease state, and they try an alternative and it doesn t go well. now, let us hope let us hope, jake, that some of the shipments that are happening now from europe, these hypo-allergenic formial a, it will help some of the patients. thanks so much. joining us now is brian deese, the white house director of the national economic council. brian, thanks for joining us. the biden administration announced the second shipment of baby formula is going to leave germany on wednesday. as part of what you call operate fly formula. the first delivery, though, it s only going to feed about 27,000 babies and only for one week. have you guys done the calculations? how many more international shipments will the u.s. need? well, the international shipments are one component of