Drug Topics October 26, 2024
David Ha, PharmD, BCIDP, discusses why pharmacies should begin offering more vaccines and how they can better market their services to the community.
The COVID-19 pandemic showcased how important pharmacists are to the community. Over the course of the public health crisis, pharmacy teams across the United States expanded their roles by providing different clinical interventions, especially vaccinations. Between February 2020 and September 2022, pharmacists and their colleagues administered more than 270 million COVID-19 vaccines, accounting for over 50% of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.1
According to a 2023 report from the Global Healthy Living Foundation, pharmacists in the US administered more routine vaccinations than physicians from 2020 to 2021.2 The report showed that the majority of adult COVID-19 and...
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