Has It Really Been 5 Years? What’s Changed and What Hasn’t Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pharmacy Times March 10, 2025
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, MBA, Pharmacy Times Editor in Chief

COVID-19 changed the personal and professional lives of all pharmacy workforce members. But what now?

350 Million Interventions

A 2022 article in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association estimated that the pharmacy workforce in the United States produced more than 350 million interventions in the roughly 2 years following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. These interventions principally included point of care testing (POCT) and vaccinations as well as prescribing and administration of antivirals and antibody infusions, among other interventions. Considering an outpatient pharmacy workforce of roughly 185,000,1 upwards of 2000 interventions per pharmacist were performed, and likely much higher per full-time equivalency.

All of this was done without a single report of major harm or death, following decades...

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