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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Jennifer Attonito on Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout In Florida
Description: The availability of pharmacist-administered vaccination has grown in recent decades. Proximity to a pharmacy has found to be predictive of vaccine use. In Florida, Publix grocery stores were the first retail pharmacies to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to eligible members of the public. For more than a month after the initial rollout, Publix remained the sole retail pharmacy authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines.Grocery stores seem like a natural place to reach a large share of the population, but grocery stores are not located evenly throughout communities.Jennifer Attonito, an instructor of health administration...