WASHINGTON– The U.S. will begin delivering doses of the Covid-19 vaccine directly to retail drug stores next week, as the Biden administration broadens how and where Americans can get inoculated.
The preliminary shipment of 1 million dosages will go to 6,500 stores beginning Feb. 11, stated Jeffrey Zients, the Biden administration’s Covid-19 organizer.
States were left by the Trump administration to devise their own circulation strategies and some opted to use retail drug stores in their states to help administer the vaccine to specific groups, like health care employees.
Drug stores that receive the vaccine directly from the federal government will still require to follow their state’s guidelines to determine which populations must receive the injections. Americans ought to examine their regional drug store’s website to make a consultation if they fall under one of their state’s priority groups, he said.
The very first drug stores to receive the vaccine from the federal government will be those that are best situated to reach individuals at high risk for severe illness and “socially vulnerable” populations, stated Zients.
Eventually, 40,000 drug stores throughout the nation will get shipments of the vaccine, but Zients didn’t state when he expected that to happen. Until now, hospitals and state health departments have actually been administering the vast bulk of vaccinations.
” The preliminary stage of triggering regional drug stores will get more shots in arms,” Zients stated. “It will ensure that drug stores have the infrastructure and the experience they need to scale up when vaccine supply increases in the months ahead.”
CVS stated Tuesday that it will receive 250,000 of those dosages from the federal government next week. The across the country chain strategies to start providing vaccinations at 300 of its shops, including 100 in California and 70 in Texas. CVS has 10,000 shops nationwide.
In addition to the 1 million dosages the administration plans to deliver to retail drug stores, it likewise prepares to send 10.5 million dosages a week for the next 3 weeks to state governments. The Biden administration has actually increased the number of doses being sent to the states by 20 percent because taking over the vaccine distribution program on Jan. 20.
President Joe Biden has devoted to providing a minimum of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office and stated he hopes that number could be as high as 150 million. Far, 32 million dosages have actually been administered since the very first vaccine was approved on Dec. 11.
Zients stated the severe weather across much of the northeastern United States hasn’t decreased the federal government’s deliveries of the vaccine though some states have needed to close administration websites.
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