Meijer had previously been named a Federal Retail Pharmacy Partner in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Meijer had previously been named a Federal Retail Pharmacy Partner in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. This is in addition to supporting FEMA at the Mass Vaccination Clinics being held at Ford Field in Detroit and numerous offsite clinics with different partners. Meijer has registered more than 2 million people to receive the vaccine since it launched its registration system in January. The link will include three brief questions that allow Meijer pharmacies to properly determine which vaccine phase the patient is in.

In some small towns across the U.S., an independent pharmacy is the only local place where residents can get a COVID-19 vaccination. President Joe Biden recently celebrated the injection of the 50 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine since his inauguration. They don’t have to pay for the COVID-19 vaccine, unlike flu and other vaccines, but they do have administrative costs they may be able to recover when patients have insurance. All told, the Federal Retail Pharmacy program has 21 companies taking part including big drugstore and grocery chains and mass merchandisers like Costco and Walmart. Besides giving COVID-19 shots in their stores, pharmacists have also set up mass immunization clinics.