Continuing proactive engagement with the nation’s governors and state executive teams that has remained a priority throughout the pandemic, NACDS this week urged states to take actions that will help ensure patients have ready access to vaccines from their trusted pharmacies and pharmacists.
National pharmacy group with 40,000 traditional, supermarket and mass retail pharmacies and 155,000 pharmacists: today’s announcement further empowers the paramount education, trust and accessibility of pharmacies and pharmacists – the face of neighborhood healthcare.
Patient groups urging action in next COVID bill represent 200 million Americans living with cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV, mental health issues, liver disease, lupus and other conditions.
National organization representing pharmacies of diverse formats and sizes says: “By any measure, America’s pharmacies present patients and the nation with an efficient, effective and essential component of vaccine deployment”
The discussion addressed the question: “Once the COVID-19 vaccine is available, how do we immunize the American people the fastest way possible so we can open all aspects of the U.S. economy?”
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.
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.
States have requested input on ways to leverage pharmacies, pharmacists through executive orders, proclamations and declarations
Letter to Congress, Administration urges immediate steps “to further optimize the critical role pharmacy plays in helping to respond to this national emergency”
Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, who noted pharmacists' vital role in public health in an op-ed published February 8 in the Omaha World-Herald, is pictured here during a February 20 CNBC appearance.
