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KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — Griffith & Feil Drug has been in business since 1892, a family-owned, small-town pharmacy. This isn’t their first pandemic.
More than a century after helping West Virginians confront the Spanish flu in 1918, the drugstore in Kenova, a community of about 3,000 people, is helping the state lead the nation in COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout, largely because of the state’s decision to reject a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens and instead enlist mom-and-pop pharmacies to vaccinate residents against the virus that has killed over 395,000 Americans.
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Currently limited to Walgreen's & CVS, the current vaccine rollout plan is very limited. Unless they build drive-through vaccination centers in their parking lots, these chain pharmacies lack the space & staff to vaccinate the desired number of people. Enlisting small mom-n-pop pharmacies as well would increase the vaccination capacity.
KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — Griffith & Feil Drug has been in business since 1892, a family-owned, small-town pharmacy. This isn’t their first pandemic.
More than a century after helping West Virginians confront the Spanish flu in 1918, the drugstore in Kenova, a community of about 3,000 people, is helping the state lead the nation in COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
West Virginia has emerged as an unlikely success in the nation’s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout, largely because of the state’s decision to reject a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens and instead enlist mom-and-pop pharmacies to vaccinate residents against the virus that has killed over 395,000 Americans.
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Currently limited to Walgreen's & CVS, the current vaccine rollout plan is very limited. Unless they build drive-through vaccination centers in their parking lots, these chain pharmacies lack the space & staff to vaccinate the desired number of people. Enlisting small mom-n-pop pharmacies as well would increase the vaccination capacity.