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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 08:01 PM Dec 2020

CVS to start its COVID-19 vaccination program for long-term care facilities [View all]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/cvs-to-start-its-covid-19-vaccination-program-for-long-term-care-facilities/51-27fdd459-4326-4487-bf7c-51dacecf5540

CVS has launched its COVID-19 vaccination program for long-term care facilities, whose residents have been disproportionality impacted by the pandemic.

CVS Pharmacy teams will administer the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in facilities across 12 states this week, and the company expects to vaccinate up to four million residents and staff at over 40,000 long-term care facilities through the program.

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CVS will administer COVID-19 vaccinations starting this week in: Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Vermont.

Vaccinations will begin in 36 more states, as well as the District of Columbia, on December 28.

More at link. They are entrusting these vaccines to CVS?
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