Ontario considering letting pharmacists prescribe Paxlovid for COVID-19: Moore

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore said recently that the health system will see a “triple threat” of COVID-19, a bad flu season and the resurgence of a childhood respiratory virus this fall and winter.

“There was concern in particular in isolated areas. Where you may not have good access to a primary care physician, you may have access to a pharmacist. So that gap was looked at and I do believe they're working aggressively on that.”“I do think it is one solution in increasing the access,” he said.

“The earlier you started in five days, the better in terms of preventing serious symptoms and illness whereby you would then need to go to the hospital or, even worse, into the hospital's ICU,” he said.“The amount of volume going through the stores, anecdotally, is very low,” he said.

To help relieve the pressure on doctors, Ontario needs to leverage the skill set that pharmacists have when it comes to prescriptions and vaccines.

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