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With few pharmacies, Wisconsin's rural counties are forced to get creative to administer COVID vaccines


Wisconsin Examiner
Madison has been selected as the hub for regional vaccine distribution. (Photo of by John Maniaci, UW Health).
Florence County is one of just 110 counties nationwide without a retail pharmacy capable of providing immunization services. Five other rural counties in Wisconsin have just one such pharmacy. 
The availability of several COVID-19 vaccine access points will be important for immunizing people in the hard-to-reach rural corners of the country, yet hundreds of counties don’t have adequate access to retail pharmacies, according to a policy brief from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Iowa. ....

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