Pharmacy retailers CVS, Walgreens hiring thousands for help with COVID-19 vaccine
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Elliot Lozano, a pharmacy technician at the CVS Health Pharmacy at 12502 Memorial Dr., gloves up before helping a drive thru customer administer a COVIC-19 self test Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston, TX.Michael Wyke / ContributorShow MoreShow Less
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Elliot Lozano, a pharmacy technician at the CVS Health Pharmacy at 12502 Memorial Dr., prepares a COVID-19 self administered test for a drive thru customer Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston, TX.Michael Wyke / ContributorShow MoreShow Less
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Elliot Lozano, a pharmacy technician at the CVS Health Pharmacy at 12502 Memorial Dr., fill prescriptions Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston, TX.Michael Wyke / ContributorShow MoreShow Less
Walgreens, CVS Reveal When Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Available In Drugstores
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Residents would need an appointment to receive a vaccine at CVS Health
Drugstores and supermarkets will help the government in vaccinating nursing home residents and staffers
Americans may have to wait until early spring before coronavirus vaccines become available at local pharmacies and grocery stores across the country, according to Walgreens and CVS Health officials.
“Over the next couple of months we anticipate that we’ll be able to have it in our stores similar to the flu season,” Rina Shah, group vice president of pharmacy operations at Walgreens, told CNBC on Monday. “As more and more vaccine becomes available, access to that vaccine will continue to grow.”
Pfizer vs. Moderna: How Many Vaccines Each Is Shipping Out And When They’ll Be Available
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First doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine already delivered
Retailers say they’re prepared for delivery and dosing
The U.S. committed to distributing enough COVID-19 vaccines so that about one-third of the total population can be inoculated by March, an official said.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency-use authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine last week. On Monday, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the country to be inoculated against a virus that has claimed over 300,000 American lives this year.
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Nurse Cheryl Birmingham administers the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to nurse La Tanya Forbes at a pharmacy in Miramar, Florida,. on Monday. | SCOTT MCINTYRE / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Bloomberg Dec 15, 2020
The first COVID-19 shots were administered by U.S. hospitals Monday, the initial step in a historic drive to immunize millions of people this week as the Pfizer Inc. vaccine is distributed nationwide.
Where Can I Get Vaccinated for Coronavirus?
Approximately twenty drugstores and grocery stores forged partnerships with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last month to help administer the vaccines.
For now, with the green-lighting of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and Moderna potentially receiving the same approval later this week, the public distribution of the doses is currently limited to frontline health-care workers and residents in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
But many Americans who don’t fit into those categories are left wondering when they will have access to the potentially life-saving vaccines.
According to health officials and companies who will eventually give the shots to the general public, it will still be several months before the average person can walk into their local drugstore or grocery store and receive the vaccine.