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Chris Crank and Mark Glasper Named to Board of Governors of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB)
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB), the leading credentialing organization for pharmacy technicians, has named Christopher W. Crank, PharmD, MS, BCPS, and Mark Glasper to the PTCB Board of Governors, effective January 1 and January 18, respectively.
Chris Crank; Mark Glasper As the new year begins, we are pleased to welcome Chris and Mark as new members of our Board of Governors, said William Schimmel, PTCB Executive Director and CEO. They ve hit the ground running. With their combined organizational leadership experience, they will help move PTCB forward on our trajectory toward advancing medication safety by credentialing qualified technicians who enable pharmacy teams to perform at their highest levels.
Pfizer will now ship fewer COVID-19 vaccine vials to the US after scientists discovered extra doses in them
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Pfizer will ship fewer COVID-19 vaccine vials to the US after extra doses were discovered.
The company has pushed the FDA to formally acknowledge the extra doses found in each vial.
Some pharmacists say they re still struggling to extract the extra doses.
Last month, pharmacists across the US found a pleasant surprise when they discovered that the vials of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine contained extra doses.
As a result, Pfizer will now ship fewer vials of vaccine to the US to account for that, according to a New York Times report. The pharmaceutical company has committed to providing 200 million vaccine doses to the US by the end of July. The extra doses found in the initial allocations will now count toward that number.
The distinction was critical: Pfizers contract with the federal government requires that it be paid by the dose. And there were serious public health implications. If the labels formal language told people administering the vaccine that the vial contained a sixth dose, that could accelerate the pace of vaccinations at a crucial time.
Pfizer will be providing the U.S. with fewer overall COVID-19 vials than originally expected, after it was discovered that each vial contained more vaccine doses than initially thought, The New York Times reports.