COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Pushing Pharmacists to a Breaking Point

COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Pushing Pharmacists to a Breaking Point

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akgz8e/covid-19-vaccinations-are-pushing-pharmacists-to-a-breaking-point

For the past two months, retail pharmacies like CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have become the tip of the spear for the COVID-19 vaccination effort in the U.S. Widely available vaccinations at pharmacies have been one of the key reasons America’s pandemic outlook has gotten better. But many pharmacy staff feel they’ve been frogmarched to the frontlines of the pandemic without receiving appropriate resources to do vaccines as well as prescription filling. Meanwhile, their companies are enjoying the financial windfall of their labor. 

“There was supposed to be a dedicated staff in place. That never materialized,” a Walgreens pharmacy manager in the greater Atlanta area said. Motherboard agreed to keep several sources in this story anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press. “My pharmacy is open 10 hours a day. We fill about 350 prescriptions a day, trying to make 40 phone calls and then we have 60 COVID shot appointments every day. You can't do it all.”