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The objective of the study is to begin to quantify contributions of U. These interventions span the gamut of diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and support, intervening patient by patient with vaccines, diagnostic tests, convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, antiviral medications, and supportive therapies.
Review of published literature, relevant web pages, and queries to national and state professional pharmacy associations and government agencies. Pharmacists prescribed, dispensed, and administered an uncounted number of antibody products and antiviral medications, including care for 5. The number of lives touched and people cared for by pharmacists continues to rise. These interventions span the gamut of diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and support. In February and March , the United States realized how relentlessly a novel coronavirus was spreading across the country and around the world.
Restaurants, theaters, businesses, schools, and even houses of worship closed or drastically curtailed their activities. Yet society realized that some community services could not stop, such as those in grocery stores and pharmacies. And the people who put their own health at risk to maintain continuity of care and allow prescriptions and medication-consulting services to keep flowing amid the contagious outbreak rightly were called heroes.
This document begins to quantify the contributions of pharmacists in providing clinical interventions that would mitigate and control the COVID pandemic. The passages below describe several types of statistics, interspersed with vignettes to help bring dry numbers to life.
