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After months of standing in line trying for adequate shipments of the H1N1 vaccine, pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers with in-store clinics now are trying to make the most of an influx of supply now becoming more widely available.<\/p>\nAfter months of standing in line trying for adequate shipments of the H1N1 vaccine, pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers with in-store clinics now are trying to make the most of an influx of supply now becoming more widely available.<\/p>\n
“Right now there’s probably more supply than demand,” Troyen A. Brennan, chief medical officer at drugstore chain CVS Caremark, told the WSJ<\/a> this morning. CVS<\/a> is offering the swine-flu vaccinations in 23 states, while Rite-Aid<\/a> has them in 30 states and Wal-Mart<\/a> in 48 states. Walgreens<\/a>, the No. 1 pharmacy chain by number of stores, will have them available in 49 states by year end, the WSJ says.<\/p>\n Of course, this ramp-up is happening while flu activity continues to decline in the U.S., according to the CDC<\/a>. But the government push for people to still get H1N1 shots, especially now that there are enough supplies<\/a> to give the vaccine to lower-risk groups.<\/p>\n For the retailers, vaccines may not be a huge profit center (most providers are charging $10 to $18 for a H1N1 shot), but they can build traffic. “We clearly see potential opportunity” in the vaccinations, spokesman Brian Dowling of supermarket operator Safeway told the WSJ. “The vast majority of our pharmacy customers shop the rest of the store.” <\/p>\n Booster Shot:<\/strong> WHO head Margaret Chan told a Geneva newspaper that “it is too soon to say that we have passed the peak of the [H1N1] flu pandemic on a worldwide scale….Winter is still long.” See more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image of H1N1 by C. Goldsmith via CDC<\/em><\/p>\n After months of standing in line trying for adequate shipments of the H1N1 vaccine, pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers with in-store clinics now are trying to make the most of an influx of supply now becoming more widely available. “Right now there’s probably more supply than demand,” Troyen A. Brennan, chief medical officer at drugstore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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