COVID-19 Response

Publix has once again begun to offer the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at participating pharmacy locations.

Meijer’s pharmacies will have a minimum of 100 doses per week of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines that will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson and Rick Keyes, NACDS chairman and president and CEO of Meijer, addressed the myriad challenges and accomplishments of the pharmacy industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Area Enhancement Act would give Medicare patients in medically underserved communities access to critically needed primary health care services delivered by pharmacists. 

Shoppers Drug Mart will be providing 24-hour COVID-19 vaccination appointments at 20 of its stores in the Ontario region.

In describing insights from the National Association of Broadcasters' partnership with the Reynolds Journey Institute, NAB's Gordon Smith highlighted findings that underscored local pharmacies as trusted community messengers.

Three leading chains are adding an OTC at-home COVID-19 test to their offerings.

The clinic is the result of a partnership between Upsher-Smith and pharmacy chain Thrifty White, which supplied and administered more than 250 vaccines.