Remember the convenience of a 24-hour pharmacy? CVS and Walgreens are having to shut some locations on weekends as Omicron puts further strains on staffing
and CVS said they are unable to quantify weekend closures, which fluctuate each week and sometimes occur without much notice. In places such as Washington, D.C., New Gloucester, Maine, and New Paltz, N.Y., customers have said they unexpectedly encountered closed drive-throughs and pharmacy counters in recent weeks. In some cases, people showed up for scheduled Covid-19 vaccine appointments only to find the pharmacy closed.
He went to another CVS, where a pharmacist was unable to provide the pain medication because it is a controlled substance whose prescription can’t be transferred between drugstores. Mr. Fox said the pharmacist instructed him to ask his insurer to clear the way for another location to fill the prescription, but the insurer’s automated voice system said agents were busy and potentially unavailable until the next day.
“At this point I’m getting angry. My wife has now been twelve hours without her pain meds less than two days after a major surgery,” Mr. Fox said. “She’s in a lot of pain.” A CVS spokesman said a small fraction of its nearly 10,000 U.S. stores are closing on one or both weekend days “to help address acute staffing issues amidst both the Omicron surge and the workforce shortage affecting nearly every industry and company.”spokeswoman said a vast majority of the chain’s 9,000 U.S. stores are open their regular hours.
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