COVID-19 vaccines expected by spring 2021 at drugstore/grocery store

 

• Health care heroes across the U.S. received the first doses of Pfizer's vaccine on Monday.
• However, it will be months before the average person can access these shots at their local drugstore or grocery store.
• Walgreens Boots (NASDAQ:WBA) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) expect to give vaccines to the general public starting in the early spring, said officials to CNBC.
• “Over the next couple of months we anticipate that we’ll be able to have [it in] our stores similar to the flu season,” Rina Shah, group vice president of pharmacy operations at Walgreens, said Monday on CNBC’s “The Exchange.” She said that would be “hopefully in the spring timeframe.”
• Chris Cox, a senior vice president of CVS, said he hopes the company can give the vaccine at its drugstores “somewhere in the April/May timeframe.”
• Nearly 20 drugstores and grocers partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in mid-November to help administer COVID-19 vaccines.
• Walgreens and CVS will also play a central role in an early phase of the vaccine rollout.
• Costco (NASDAQ:COST) is also assuming to begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations to the general public at its in-store pharmacies around early spring, CEO Craig Jelinek said to CNBC.
• Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD), Kroger (NYSE:KR), Publix and H-E-B are still waiting to hear when they will receive vaccine doses and can begin offering the shots to Americans.
• The vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), which requires two doses, is the first to receive emergency approval from the FDA.
• By the spring, however, public health officials anticipate vaccines from multiple manufacturers to be available.
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