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COVID-19 vaccine rollout sees hiring frenzy for pharmacists

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COVID-19 vaccine rollout sees hiring frenzy for pharmacists

Photo caption: Pharmacist Evelyn Kim, left, and pharmacy technician Omar Toppin, right, clean the counter at the CVS pharmacy at Target in the Tenleytown area of Washington on March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster). Original article by Sharon Terlep and Jaewon Kang for The Wall Street Journal.

CVS, Walgreens dangle signing bonuses, ramp up staffing

The nation’s drugstores and groceries are racing to hire thousands of pharmacists and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the masses. Pharmacies big and small were laying off pharmacists as recently as summer, as the profession’s outlook grew dim. Now some of those same pharmacies and supermarkets are making […]

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