The Community Pharmacy Association of New York State and NACDS are hailing a new law that will ensure pharmacists can provide to New Yorkers the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.
Full preparedness for pharmacist-provided flu vaccines also a priority as flu and coronavirus could collide this Fall.
National group representing 40,000 pharmacies with 155,000 pharmacists cites federal study: U.S. can vaccinate 80 percent of the nation seven weeks sooner by using pharmacies.
NACDS is urging actions to complement the administration’s removal of barriers on pharmacist-provided testing.
NACDS requested clarity on this key issue as pharmacies and pharmacists continue to ramp up testing to protect public health and reopen America.
NACDS was invited to include an ad in a USA Today digital supplement that will debut on Saturday, May 16.
To reopen the nation successfully and to suppress future COVID-19 outbreaks, NACDS is urging government actions supporting three key objectives that are crucial for the health of all Americans, related to testing, contact tracing and vaccines or treatments.
NACDS members announce continued expansion of COVID-19 testing through public-private partnership; federal and state governments also empowering scaling by removing remaining barriers to pharmacist-provided testing.
Gov. Cuomo has taken game-changing action with his executive order authorizing pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests.
Building off a recent effort to allow pharmacists to test and treat for flu and strep in Florida, the Governor took another important action by directing the state’s Surgeon General to allow licensed pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests.
