FDA allows pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid

Thanks Mike for sharing this information.

This is another move toward upstream migration of covid mitigation actions.

1. Test (home testing)
2. Treat (see your local pharmacist may require confirmatory testing) (interesting to note that vaccine hesitant are not treatment hesitant hence this may be appealing)
3. Trace ( your friends, family, and neighbors as a quasi-amateur epidemiologist)
4. Repeat

(I am working hard to get this TTT & R language into the normal lexicon similar to TSA “See something – Say something”)

From an intrinsic motivational perspective TTT & R enables the individual to experience optimal  Autonomy, Belonging, and Competence the drivers of intrinsic motivation, locus of control and sense of self (E. Deci et.al., of whom I studied
under).

As this progresses, it may enable FQHC like ACHS to better balance our primary care, population, and public health activities.

That being said, against a backdrop of Littleton NH having rolling “black outs” of their pharmacy due to the dearth of pharmacists, this effort may be thwarted by the realities of the market place.

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Administration officials have been working for months to increase access to Paxlovid,

opening thousands of sites where patients who test positive can fill a prescription for Paxlovid. The FDA change will make thousands more pharmacies eligible to quickly prescribe and dispense the pill,

which must be used early to be effective.

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