Pharmacists Play A Key Role In The COVID-19 Pandemic

VIRUS OUTBREAK ILLINOIS
A customer waits for his medication behind a sheet of plastic installed to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at a CVS pharmacy store in Morton Grove, Ill Nam Y. Huh / ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIRUS OUTBREAK ILLINOIS
A customer waits for his medication behind a sheet of plastic installed to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at a CVS pharmacy store in Morton Grove, Ill Nam Y. Huh / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pharmacists Play A Key Role In The COVID-19 Pandemic

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Pharmacists provide medical guidance and ensure patients get the medications they need. And they’re accessible — even to people without a primary care physician or health insurance.

Reset checks in with two licensed pharmacists on their role in the COVID-19 response.

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Marlowe Djuric Kachlic, professor and director of the Community Residency Program at University of Illinois, Chicago