Officials with Health P.E.I. are asking Islanders for patience when trying to access Paxlovid and say physicians have now prescribed more than 1,200 courses of the highly effective COVID-19 antiviral.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of pharmacies in the health-care system, but they can do even more to help ease the burden on Atlantic Canada's hospitals, say pharmacists across the region.
Four weeks ago the P.E.I. government announced it would start delivering free shingles vaccines to Island seniors in January, but no details have yet been released.