The companies, which run the nation's largest pharmacy chains and
offer other offsite pharmacy services, have agreed with the federal
government to vaccinate nursing home residents across the country
through a voluntary program.
Walgreens said it plans to administer the vaccine to about 3 million
residents and staff in 35,000 long-term care facilities. The company
said it would provide vaccinations in about 800 long-term care
facilities across 12 states in the coming week.
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CVS did not say how many people would be given the vaccine on
Friday, but that it is administering them at a "handful" of
long-term care facilities in Connecticut and Ohio. Its national
rollout also begins next week in 12 states.
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week that they will start administering a
vaccine made by Moderna Inc about a week after
they begin their national rollouts.
(Reporting by Manas Mishra and Dania Nadeem in
Bengaluru and Richa Naidu in Chicago; Editing by
Shounak Dasgupta and Maju Samuel)
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