Ontario Considering Allowing Pharmacists To Prescribe Paxlovid For Covid 19 Moore
The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, recently said 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. Finding ways to ensure greater availability of drugs to keep people with COVID-19 out of the hospital is especially important for more rural communities, he said. “I know the government is reviewing the ability of pharmacists to be able to prescribe it directly after a positive test,” Moore told The Canadian Press....