DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What do you see as the biggest internal and external challenges facing retail pharmacies when it comes to immunizing large numbers of people against COVID-19? Do you think that pharmacies have a significant role to play in bringing COVID-19 vaccines to underserved areas or are other paths of distribution more likely to get large numbers of people vaccinated quickly?
Interactive Edge’s CEO, Zel Bianco comments, featured on RetailWire’s Braintrust:
The biggest challenge is that they simply do not have the staff to handle it. It is challenging to pick up your medicine and with the pharmacist being the only one trained to give the shot, it makes it quite difficult to have the process run smoothly. More people are needed and fast.
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Will retail pharmacies be the cure for America’s ‘vaccine desserts’?
