The Ministry of Health is asking for feedback on new draft regulations from the Ontario College of Pharmacists
The new rules would see pharmacists able to prescribe Tamiflu — medication to treat influenza — to patients over one year old. Pharmacists have also been able to prescribe Paxlovid to treat COVID-19 since December, and the Ontario Pharmacists Association says there have been more than 174,000 such prescriptions.
In addition to seniors, infants are at a higher risk of getting very sick with RSV — or respiratory syncytial virus — but there is no vaccine for children, although they can receive antibody injections.Article content Justin Bates, CEO of the Ontario Pharmacists Association, said the new rules would help people get health care more quickly and easily.
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