During baby formula shortage, Kansas Citians come together 'to survive as a community'

Over 76% of stores in Kansas City are now out of stock of formula. To keep babies fed, friends and family members are sending cans of formula to others with babies, posting on community boards what they see at the grocery store, and donating excess breast milk.
“Gotta go — formula,” Mia Cathey shouted at her husband as she rushed out the door one night at 9 p.m.

Cathey was off to buy two cans of the high calorie, hypoallergenic formula her 4-month-old baby needs to survive. The previous two weeks, she had been unable to find a single can of the formula anywhere in her hometown of Blue Springs, Missouri, and she was down to her last can.

Cathey was finally able to get a couple of days worth of food for her baby thanks to a post on a community Facebook group about one store’s stock.

Such experiences are common.