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Large vaccination effort to be carried out by CVS Health, Walgreens at Missouri nursing homes

Long-term care facilities across Missouri will receive help in administering the COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff starting next week. Pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreens will assist in giving over 100,000 vaccines, a process expected to take three months to complete.

Starting next week on Dec. 28, Missouri nursing homes and other long-term care facilities will be getting a helping hand in administering the COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff.

CVS Health plans to administer about 100,000 coronavirus vaccinations across Missouri nursing homes and facilities.

The pharmacy chain will vaccinate residents and staff at more than 40,000 long-term care facilities across the U.S.

Health care workers were the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Nursing homes were next on the list because the virus has killed more than 110,000 people at long-term care facilities nationwide, including about half of the 4,947 people who have died of the disease in Missouri.

CVS said vaccinations at nursing homes should be completed in about three months.

Once vaccines are available to everyone, CVS said it plans to provide them at each of its locations by appointment.

Missouri’s health director, Dr. Randall Williams, said he expects general public vaccinations to start by April.