CVS, Walgreens begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care facilities in
CVS and Walgreens are launching COVID-19 vaccinations across long-term care facilities in California beginning on Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state had opted in to a federal pharmacy partnership where workers with CVS and Walgreens administer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff at long-term care facilities at no cost to the state or local governments. CVS will provide vaccinations for 499 skilled nursing facilities as part of the first phrase of the program, Newsom said. Walgreens will do the vaccinations for 357 facilities.CVS had announced last week the pharmacy chain would have the capacity to immunize close to 700,000 residents and staff across more than 15,000 skilled nursing and assisting living facilities in California. Nationwide, CVS plans to immunize 40 million staff and residents on-site at long-term care facilities. “The long-term care facilities had an opportunity either to use CVS Health or Walgreens. Or they could have opted out and used a state program,” CVS Health Bay Area regional director Joe Fiesel said last week. CVS launched its program at long-term care facilities in 12 states last week. They’ll begin vaccinating long-term care facilities in three dozen states, including California, as well as Washington, D.C., starting Monday. “We’ll visit each site three different times,” Fiesel explained. “We’ll go there for the first dose, and then we’ll do a follow-up about three weeks later if we are using the Pfizer vaccine. And then we’ll go one last time to make sure we didn’t miss anybody in that facility.” CVS said this is a precursor to a larger rollout. Eventually, COVID-19 vaccinations will be offered at pharmacy locations. They’re hoping to be available to the general public around March. It will start as appointment-only. Once things get to scale, CVS said they’ll be able to offer 25 to 50 million shots each month. The vaccines are free of cost. Those recovering from COVID-19 need to wait until their isolation period ends, according to CDC criteria. However, CVS said there are no specific restrictions on getting immunized if you’ve recovered from COVID-19. CVS explained generally reinfection is uncommon for about 90 days.
CVS and Walgreens are launching COVID-19 vaccinations across long-term care facilities in California beginning on Monday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state had opted in to a federal pharmacy partnership where workers with CVS and Walgreens administer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff at long-term care facilities at no cost to the state or local governments.
CVS will provide vaccinations for 499 skilled nursing facilities as part of the first phrase of the program, Newsom said. Walgreens will do the vaccinations for 357 facilities.
CVS had announced last week the pharmacy chain would have the capacity to immunize close to 700,000 residents and staff across more than 15,000 skilled nursing and assisting living facilities in California.
Nationwide, CVS plans to immunize 40 million staff and residents on-site at long-term care facilities.
“The long-term care facilities had an opportunity either to use CVS Health or Walgreens. Or they could have opted out and used a state program,” CVS Health Bay Area regional director Joe Fiesel said last week.
CVS launched its program at long-term care facilities in 12 states last week. They’ll begin vaccinating long-term care facilities in three dozen states, including California, as well as Washington, D.C., starting Monday.
“We’ll visit each site three different times,” Fiesel explained. “We’ll go there for the first dose, and then we’ll do a follow-up about three weeks later if we are using the Pfizer vaccine. And then we’ll go one last time to make sure we didn’t miss anybody in that facility.”
CVS said this is a precursor to a larger rollout.
Eventually, COVID-19 vaccinations will be offered at pharmacy locations. They’re hoping to be available to the general public around March. It will start as appointment-only. Once things get to scale, CVS said they’ll be able to offer 25 to 50 million shots each month.
The vaccines are free of cost. Those recovering from COVID-19 need to wait until their isolation period ends, according to CDC criteria.
However, CVS said there are no specific restrictions on getting immunized if you’ve recovered from COVID-19. CVS explained generally reinfection is uncommon for about 90 days.
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