“We thank the Biden Administration for their collaborative approach and partnership throughout the ongoing vaccination effort, and we appreciate the opportunity to provide critical recommendations and comments that come directly from NACDS member pharmacies’ front-line experience in the COVID vaccination campaign."
NACDS today submitted a letter to the Biden Administration conveying recommendations that would help ensure that the eligible public can efficiently and effectively access additional COVID-19 doses at their local pharmacies.
HHS announcement: “The [PREP Act] amendment expands the authorization for qualified pharmacy technicians and interns to administer seasonal influenza vaccines under the supervision of a pharmacist to persons aged 19 and older consistent with ACIP recommendations”.
NACDS members and a June 25 NACDS letter urged the Biden Administration to enforce the preemptive nature of the federal PREP Act, even as some states’ emergency orders end.
Lauds nominations of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as CMS Administrator and Andrea Joan Palm as deputy secretary of HHS.
“NACDS warmly and enthusiastically congratulates the Honorable Xavier Becerra on his selection as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky on her selection as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Federal, state inconsistencies had created barriers to eventual COVID-19 vaccinations and to existing vaccinations by pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns.
NACDS President and CEO Steven C. Anderson issued the following statement, upon the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement about national and regional chain pharmacies’ and independent pharmacies’ role in increasing access to future COVID-19 vaccinations:
“The trust and accessibility of pharmacies are essential to public health preparedness and this is another important decision that will help to reach more Americans more efficiently”.
The report outlines three goals: 1) Make hypertension control a priority; 2) Ensure that the places where people live, learn, work and play support hypertension control; and 3) Optimize patient care for hypertension control.
