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CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products – USA TODAYby wpjljron Wednesday, February 5th, 2014.CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products – USA TODAYPedestrians walk past a CVS store in Chicago in February 2012.(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP) Story Highlights CVS counseling customers on health choices Decision is part of a larger shift in company priorities Company sells $1.5 billion in tobacco a year WASHINGTON Drug store giant CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will no longer sell […] Pedestrians walk past a CVS store in Chicago in February 2012.(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP) Story Highlights Decision is part of a larger shift in company priorities ....
Staff report CVS Pharmacy in Naples is now offering vaccines for COVID-19, but the first set of appointments were quickly booked Wednesday, according to the company. The CVS website does not indicate which store or stores are offering the shots, only the city where they re available and whether or not they have available openings. No stores in Lee or Charlotte counties were on the list. As of midday Wednesday, CVS had multiple available slots in the Miami area, Belle Glade, Doral, Hialeah, Homestead and Pensacola. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that 81 CVS Pharmacies statewide will offer the vaccine. “I’m pleased to join CVS Health today to announce 81 additional COVID-19 vaccination sites across our state, including 67 in Miami-Dade County,” said DeSantis at a Navarro Discount Pharmacy location in Hialeah. “These sites at select CVS Health locations will build on the progress we’ve made at existing retail sites and significantly increase ....
CVS to soon start offering vaccines at some New York stores. Here s when New York State Team ALBANY - New York will be one of 11 states where CVS will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines, with the pharmacy chain saying it will have 20,600 doses for 32 stores across the state late next week. CVS announced it has procured 250,000 doses that it will begin distributing next Thursday, Feb. 11 at select stores in the 11 states, which also includes neighboring Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. But that s a very limited supply, and the company said its allotment total for New York excludes New York City. For comparison, New York gets about 300,000 doses a week for the entire state. ....
/ But last week and this week, Pritzker joined a chorus of governors bemoaning both the program’s slowness and alleging it has trapped viable vaccine doses in the process. “That program has gone exceedingly slow,” Pritzker said Monday. “All the vaccinations that are necessary for that entire group have been taken out already of our allotment and they sit on shelves because that federal pharmacy partnership is so slow at the job.” The governor made similar comments on Friday, saying he was “very troubled” by the program’s slow pace, and admonished the companies to “accelerate the pace of vaccines to our most vulnerable residents.” ....