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Rite Aid joins in on efforts to effectively distribute the Covid-19 vaccine to Michigan residents

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The Biden administration is shipping the COIVD-19 vaccine direct to pharmacies, which began administering doses on Friday. In New York City, that means an initial shipment of 26,000 doses, with 500 each going to 250 Duane Reades, Walgreens, Rite Aids, and Costcos. Outside the city, CVS is also involved. Mayor Bill de Blasio also announced a three-pronged plan to vaccinate homebound seniors and the essential frontline home care workers who care for them. Beginning next week, the city will launch on-site senior vaccination clinics and, with the arrival of the Johnson & J...

Giant Eagle and Rite Aid pharmacies that were vaccinating patients against COVID-19 will get additional doses next week on top of the ones they were already slotted to receive, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Wednesday.Click the video player above to watch the full report, with comments from the health department.This, after an announcement from the Biden administration that 6,500 pharmacies across the country would get additional doses of coronavirus vaccine from the federal government.It's a small sign; vaccinating Giant Eagles and Rite Aids only got 100 doses per store...

Confusion mounts over NY vaccinations; Rite Aid apparently pulled from providers on state website News 12 Staff Updated on:Jan 17, 2021, 4:22pm EST As many New Yorkers struggle to get an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine, there is confusion over pharmacies that were supposed to offer them as Rite Aid seems to have disappeared from their list of options. Anyone over 65 can sign up to get the vaccine but getting an appointment has been the tricky part. Gov. Andrew Cuomo told seniors last week to go to pharmacies for the shot rather than mass vaccination sites. Residents say the New York sta...

>> i want you to set the scene for us. because we look at some of the numbers here. i can put up a full screen, when you look at the prescription are thatting going, and just to west virginia, from between 2007 and 2012, oxycodone dosages up to $224 million, hydrocodone 555 million. more than 1,700 fatalities related to overdose. can you set the scene in your investigation on how much medication is going to a small state, as far as population is concerned? >> it amounts to about 430 tablets to opioids that you just described for every man, woman and child in west virginia. and what was most in...