US drugstores squeezed by vaccine demand, staff shortages | AP News

A sign is posted outside a CVS pharmacy on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 in Indianapolis. A rush of vaccine-seeking customers and staff shortages are squeezing drugstores around the country. That has led to frazzled workers and even temporary pharmacy closures.

And pharmacists worry another job might soon be added to their to-do list: If regulators approve antiviral pills from drugmakers Merck and Pfizer to treat COVID-19, pharmacists may be able to diagnose infections and then prescribe pills to customers. “We’re all working a lot harder than we did before, but we’re doing everything we can to take care of people,” Wilson said, adding that he has not had to temporarily close any of his pharmacies or limit hours so far.

Others haven’t been as fortunate. A CVS Health store on the northeast side of Indianapolis shuttered its pharmacy in the middle of the afternoon Thursday due to staffing issues. A sign taped to the metal gate over the closed pharmacy counter also told customers that the pharmacy will soon start closing for a half hour each afternoon so the pharmacist can have a lunch break.

CVS Health spokesman T.J. Crawford said he couldn’t comment on the circumstances for one store. But he said his company continues “to manage through a workforce shortage that isn’t unique to CVS Health.”

Well, if companies & pharmacists treated the techs better, there wouldn’t be a damn shortage.

PBM’s (look it up) who slowly but surely put Independent Pharmacies out of business by squeezing “Heathcare Professionals” with technical usury fees they insert into legislation they SIT IN ON & add to “secret contracts” to force closures of stores gets worse-Pharm Desert Debacle

Really? Where?

Hey this article sucks. The billion dollar companies should hire more people or pay people more and stop complaining they're so busy saving lives. Like this article blames COVID rather than the companies for just overworking people?

I call Bs. They don't have tested because they were faulty and recalled. They got caught giving expired c19 shots, incorrect dose and incorrect vaccines. Staff shortage is because no one wants the shot 🤷‍♀️.

Pay them more money. Just blows my mind how corporate media just dances around this issue.

You just hear about a non existent strain then you rush for a more dangerous vaccine damn idiots no wonder the world is looking at America as a nutcase.

How can the government push mandates on the people when situations like this exist?

Good, very good that drugstores are being pushed by people in a rush to be vaccinated and tested.

Headlines I did not expect to see.

The private sector to the rescue.

this is what happens when local county and state authorities try to farm out the enourmous task of vaccinating the entire american populace to private pharmacies which weren't ever set up to handle mass vaccination on this scale

Why is there all of a sudden a rush to get vaccinated? There were months when vaccine sites were empty.

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