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March 9, 2023

A Pharmacist's Perspective on Giving Vaccines

A first-person blog by By Jennifer Griffiths, PharmD, RPh

When COVID-19 struck I was working at a small, independent pharmacy on Martha’s Vineyard. We have only one hospital which has three ICU beds and six ventilators. You can see how this could result in disaster should an outbreak of COVID-19 occur. Med-Flight is an option to get the critical patients to bigger hospitals. However, the beds in Boston were filling up fast and in inclement weather, Med-Flight doesn’t fly. We depended on the promised vaccines to be approved to help keep us all safe.

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