NCPA Survey Shows Americans Prefer Local Health Providers over Mass Events to Get Vaccines

NCPA Survey Shows Americans Prefer Local Health Providers over Mass Events to Get COVID-19 Vaccines

From National Community Pharmacists Association news release, published March 9: A new survey commissioned by the National Community Pharmacists Association shows a strong preference by Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from a trusted health care provider, such as their local pharmacist or doctor.

While nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their local pharmacist is their first or second choice to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, only 4 percent prefer to be immunized at a mass event.

“Pharmacies are being underutilized,” said NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey, pharmacist, MBA. “Millions of Americans would prefer to get immunized by a local health care provider, like their pharmacist. Community pharmacies have the capacity and the ability to vaccinate many more people than they are currently able to because of the supply and pharmacy allocation issues.”

Read the full news release

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