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The California government has partnered with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies to administer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to residents and staff of long-term care facilities at no cost to the state or local level.
As of Monday, December 28, CVS and Walgreens began administering doses in nursing homes, a task that will take approximately three to four weeks, and then vaccinating staff and residents in assisted living centers, residential care and other long-term care facilities.
Approximately 499 senior living homes will receive vaccines from CVS and 357 from Walgreens. The vaccines will be administered by pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses, the state government said in a statement.
Similarly, he noted that pharmacy technicians are participating under a recent exemption from the Board of Pharmacy that requires proper supervision according to