Retail Pharmacy Personnel Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

Retail Pharmacy Personnel Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic Concerns and awareness directly from the retail pharmacy community of San Antonio, Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This page was created for purpose of spreading awareness to local communities and customers.

04/06/2020
04/06/2020
04/06/2020

Countless doctors and nurses who face an increased risk of exposure to the coronavirus are moving away from their families to protect them.

04/06/2020

As a suburban Dallas mayor defended his order that residents shelter at home to combat the spread of the coronavirus, he learned that his 19-year-old daughter had tested positive for COVID-19.

04/06/2020

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg has issued an addendum to the Stay Home, Work Safe Orders. The addendum is consistent with Governor Abbott’s Executive Order issued on March 31, 2020. The addendum outlines the following measures:

-Staff members at long-term care facilities may only work at one facility. Long-term care facilities should identify and exclude potentially infected staff members and implement appropriate infection control measures;
-Provides the City with the authority to revoke Certificates of Occupancy from businesses as an enforcement measure for repeat violations of Stay Home Work Safe orders;
-Requiring all food, household staples retail, including those doing pick-up/delivery to limit number of people at pickup or in an establishment so that social distancing may be maintained, implement an organized line system where spacing is at least 6 feet apart, and post the establishment’s guidelines that limit number of people and implement the line system;
-Closes park amenities including playgrounds, basketball courts, tennis courts, skate plazas and splash pads at all community recreational areas;
-Closes City parks, except for walking/running/biking trails, on Saturday and Sunday of Easter weekend;
-Closes all municipal and private golf courses and driving ranges (including frisbee courses).

To report a violation of the Stay Home, Work Safe Orders call 210-207-SAPD.

More information about the Stay Home, Work Safe Orders is available here: https://www.sanantonio.gov/Health/News/Alerts/CoronaVirus

04/06/2020

Metro Health has amended local testing criteria to make testing more accessible to the community by no longer requiring a physician’s referral. ‼️ Note that testing is reserved for those who are symptomatic. Please be patient with testing process. Appointments may be scheduled several days out as a result of increased demand for tests ‼️

Learn more: http://ow.ly/IMJb50z539x

04/03/2020
04/03/2020
04/03/2020

Navy leaders have relieved the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier after a memo to military officials pleading for help with a coronavirus outbreak at sea was leaked to a newspaper, officials said.

04/02/2020
04/02/2020

SEGUIN, Texas - Local officials say a COVID-19 patient visited at least two local businesses within Guadalupe County. According to Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher, the patient visited the following locations March 19. H-E-B at 1340 E. Court St. , Seguin, Texas. Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Un...

04/02/2020

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The Coronavirus outbreak and neighborhood pharmacies

Just before the new year, the world caught a glimpse of a novel coronavirus erupting from Wuhan, China late December. Assuming it would arise and diminish in little time, the country mistook it as “being like the flu”, laughing at overreacting countries and continuing with normal activities. We were wrong. Now heading into April, outbreaks of COVID-19 have metastasized all over the world with ongoing devastating impacts on Italy, China, and New York. As we prepare for massive devastation on a larger scale, this is what is going through the mind of a Pharmacist technician amid the chaos.