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Emile

(37,198 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:34 AM Friday

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States

The country’s largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
CVS, the country’s largest pharmacy chain, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states, including Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the Food and Drug Administration.

Amy Thibault, a spokeswoman for CVS, cited “the current regulatory environment” as the reason the vaccine was not available in those states, or in the District of Columbia, emphasizing that the list could change. Legal experts said that federal decisions were creating an extremely difficult situation for pharmacies to navigate.

In some states, pharmacists are forbidden to administer vaccines that are not recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel.

Continued at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/cvs-pharmacy-covid-vaccine-16-states.html

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Blues Heron

(7,404 posts)
2. How is this not straight up murder? WTF? They need to hammer Trump on if he got the vax
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:39 AM
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the minute ANY trump regime gets the vax, they need to be hounded mercilessly on why they get it but we cant. This is outrageous. COVID is a knwon killer and these monsters are stopping people from protecting themselves.

Emile

(37,198 posts)
4. These states included are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:44 AM
Friday

Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.

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DFW

(58,824 posts)
11. As long as this does not affect Maryland, the DC taboo is a joke.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:54 AM
Friday

Residents of DC and the northern Virginia DC suburbs can just hop into a Metro and be in Maryland in less than an hour, in some cases within minutes. If Wes Moore’s administration keeps Maryland off the list, restaurants, bars and cafés in his state near the borders with DC and NoVa are about to get a nice jump in business during hours that their pharmacies are open.

Blaukraut

(5,972 posts)
12. The vaccine makers should sue
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:55 AM
Friday

If there was ever a good reason for big pharma to sue the government, this would be the one.

NewHendoLib

(61,306 posts)
14. These stores should be picketed hard. Same people need to come out
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:06 AM
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And make it clear that anti science is not ok

Marthe48

(21,653 posts)
16. Giant Eagle Marietta Oh
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:50 AM
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I picked up a prescription today. I asked them about the Covid booster, and they haven't heard about getting them in. The pharmicist said they haven't heard from cdc about Covid guidelines. I think there should be a campaign for Vaccinations on Demand. If that sounds familiar, it was an early slogan when the sane people in the U.S. was trying to get abortion rights. If we want protection from disease, and it's tested, safe and manufactured, we should be able to get it, regardless of what a mentally ill person dictates.



Quiet Em

(2,189 posts)
17. It was one thing when these idiots wouldn't get the vaccine during the pandemic
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:54 AM
Friday

but it was their choice, selfish as it was, and they were never forced to do so.

But to take it away from people who need it, or want it, is outrageous and will directly harm the health and wellbeing of many

Emile

(37,198 posts)
18. My neighbor this morning went off about the new covid
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:22 PM
Friday

shots are making people sick, and by God she wasn't getting one. I told her I believe in science, and how could people be getting sick when they haven't even released the new vaccine? Crickets

mainer

(12,410 posts)
19. Insurance companies will get hit with ICU bills
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:29 PM
Friday

If we have another COVID surge, the unvaccinated will be filling hospital ICU beds, and insurance companies will be paying the bills. Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper for them to cover the cost of vaccinations?

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