Missouri Pharmacies receiving 15% of Missouri's vaccine

Missouri Pharmacies receiving 15% of Missouri's vaccine

Governor mike parson announcing 15 percent of missouri's vaccine would begin going to pharmacies around the statekq2's mitchell riberal spoke with one local pharmacy about their reactions.

<<<<<<<<<<<< mitchell riberal reportingnext time you are stopping in at your local pharmacy you could even get your covid vaccinesot: rex robinson: rogers pharmarcy: "we've given over 1000 doses in the last week or so" pharmacies across missouri are now receiving fifteen percent of the states covid-19 vaccines through the week of march 22rogers pharmacy is on e of eight participating pharmacies in region h receiving this supply.they will receive 200 initial doses of the vaccine in addition to the booster doses which is an increase from what they have been gettingsot: robinson "well started out very limited, it was 100 vials here, 100 vials there.

But all of a sudden, we got 300 vials of the single shot j and j.

And we got some more maderna coming in.

So we're making do with what we got," rogers pharmacy says it has been frustrating at times because they were struggling to receive their dosesand think that officials thought big stores would give the most shotssot: robinson "i think originally they thought that the big chain stores would be giving the bulk of the vaccine, but they haven't gotten it for whatever reason.

Plus they don't have the manpower to actually take the time to give it because there are so understaffed but we're fortunate that we have the people to give it"while the pharmacies start to receive these weekly dosesrogers pharmacy is just glad they are able to keep helping those in the community receive the covid vaccinesot: robinson "it's just that we're happy to accommodate the folks whether they're our customers or not.

We're just trying our best to get everybody that wants a vaccine taken care of."

Reporting in st joseph, mitchell news rogers pharmacy says the increase in vaccine has helped them almost catch up to everybody on their vaccine waiting list.