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Walmart customers will soon be able to get a Covid-19 vaccine alongside their toilet paper and groceries! Well, sort of.
America’s largest retailer announced that was going to be apart of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout on December 5th, revealing that it would be offering the shots at 5,000 store locations once they were approved.
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Now that the vaccines have been given the FDA sign-off, the Arkansas-based company revealed in a blog post that they’ve begun to providing the Moderna vaccine to healthcare workers and pharmacists at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations in New Mexico. This is huge!
In a post written by the company's chief medical officer Dr. Tom Van Gilder, the company explained that they offered the vaccines to their own pharmacists who will be frontline workers in distributing the vaccine.
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"We know the vital role our stores, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will play in the immunization of communities across the country, so keeping them healthy and safe is a critical first link in the chain of wide vaccine distribution," he wrote.
Next up? The company explained that it is working to prepare thousands of its pharmacy locations across the country to deliver the vaccine to the "Priority 1B" and "Priority 1C" groups, which include essential workers, first responders, and older Americans.
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The general public will not be far behind. "We will also be prepared for all Americans to receive the vaccine in the spring and summer when the broad rollout happens," he explained. Woo hoo!
