The Important Role Of Community Pharmacist In COVID-19 Testing
In this interview, Dr. Steven Chen, PharmD, FASHP, FCSHP, FNAP discusses how community pharmacists can play a major role in COVID-19 testing administration with the recent guidance from US Health and Human Services that under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, licensed pharmacists may order and administer COVID-19 tests that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized. He addresses how pharmacists are well positioned to broadly perform testing that will provide vital data as public health professionals strategize …
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