Rick Gates, senior vice president of pharmacy and healthcare at Walgreens, told CNBC that getting vaccines to the general public “won’t be chaos” as the FDA authorized Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use and set plans in motion to get states nearly 6 million doses by early next week. “What you’re going to see, is we’re going …
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A healthcare worker at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center receives COVID-19 a vaccination on December 16, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. The first rounds of Pfizer’s vaccine were administered in Oregon on Wednesday. Nathan Howard | Getty Images For nursing homes across the country, the coronavirus pandemic has been especially …
Read More »Covid vaccine may be available at CVS, Walgreens stores in early spring
Health-care workers across the U.S. received Covid-19 vaccinations Monday, the first Americans to do so outside of a clinical trial. It will still be several months, however, before the average person can walk into their local drugstore or grocery store and receive the vaccine. In interviews with CNBC, Walgreens and …
Read More »Walgreens may begin Covid vaccinations at nursing homes before Christmas
A pharmacist helps a customer at a Walgreens pharmacy in Wheeling, Illinois. Getty Images Walgreens said it expects to get its first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine on Dec. 21 and start giving shots to nursing home residents and staff members in the days leading up to Christmas. The national …
Read More »Trump administration sees surge in sign ups for CVS, Walgreens program
A customer wearing a face mask exits a Walgreens pharmacy in South Beach on April 14, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. Cliff Hawkins | Getty Images The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is seeing “tremendous uptake” of a program that will allow CVS Health and Walgreens to administer coronavirus …
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CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk reacts following the company’s initial public offering at the NASDAQ market in New York June 29, 2010 Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — Tesla shares rallied 8.2% after S&P Dow Jones Indices said it would …
Read More »Walgreens drops 11% to lead drug store stocks lower after Amazon launches pharmacy business
Pharmacy stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after Amazon launched its new Pharmacy offering, which includes online ordering and delivery for prescription drugs. Dow Jones Industrial average member Walgreens Boots Alliance dropped more than 11% in premarket trading. CVS Health shares lost over 8%. Shares of Rite Aid fell 12.8%, while …
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