COVID Vaccines at Pharmacies: Distribution and Waste Update

Yeah. So we have, um, expanded

our influenza, RSV, and COVID

programs. Uh, part of the issue that, uh-- And so we, we

did an a-announcement on that, uh, a couple of weeks ago.

We are, um, having COVID vaccines be

administered through pharmacies now.

Um, part of the reason for that was that they're now in individual vials,

and so

there's going to be less wastage. We were able to bring the wastage down from

over

fifty percent to, uh,d-over-- to just over twenty percent last year.

So we're gonna be monitoring that this year.

But we have, um, uh, launched a system.

People could have started, uh, booking their, uh,

their shots starting October

the fifth. I understand that, uh, the, the, uh, vaccine was

rolling out October nineteenth. Some got it earlier,

and we did tell them if they

wanted to-- if they got it earlier, they should be administering it earlier.

But we make sure that with our vaccination program,

that it is targeted

to the most at-risk individuals.