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It depends, Grusich said, on your location.
“Federal pharmacy partners will follow guidance from their jurisdictions on which populations are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination and will screen individuals prior to vaccination to ensure their retail locations are following the jurisdiction’s vaccination plan,” she said.
How it will work
The way it will work is similar to other vaccination efforts.
Pharmacists across the United States have given out more than 20 million flu vaccinations this year alone, according to the NACDS.
Dr. Kevin Ban, the chief medical officer at Walgreens, said the process for getting a vaccination at a pharmacy now is pretty much how it will look going forward.
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Pharmacies say they could handle a massive increase in coronavirus vaccine distribution if the supply is provided.
A federal program that begins on Thursday will expand the number of pharmacies that will administer vaccines. Yet, initially, it will only use a fraction of the pharmacies that have signed on to participate.
“We haven’t even scratched the surface when it comes to pharmacies,” said Kurt Proctor, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the National Community Pharmacists Association. “There is a lot of capacity. In terms of speeding up vaccinations, we just have to get enough vaccines into the hands of pharmacists.”
Some pharmacy chains will start receiving COVID-19 vaccine directly from the federal government this week, but exactly which locations are still unclear.