Petition to Drug Stores: Stop In-Store COVID Exposure & Transmission!
ALL DRUG STORES (Including, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger Health, Rite-Aid, Walmart Pharmacy, Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Costco Pharmacy, Safeway, Giant Pharmacy, and independent pharmacies)
Current U.S. policies tell immune-compromised folks at high risk and other vulnerable people to go to pharmacies to get vaccines and boosters – at the same time as people contagious with active COVID infections are going there to get Paxlovid and COVID tests, and others who may not yet know they are contagious are simply shopping.
ALL WITH NO MASKS!
This policy makes no sense. Drug stores are community shopping centers and provide healthcare.
To make them safer for all of us, please require masks for everybody in the stores. And please come up with plans at the stores to provide people with masks, offer drive-through where available, and curbside service or home delivery when possible.
It is not acceptable to require staff and customers to get exposed at essential service locations when this can be prevented. Pharmacies should be a safe location with infection control prioritized.
WE NEED A DRUG STORE MASK REQUIREMENT!
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ALL DRUG STORES (Including, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger Health, Rite-Aid, Walmart Pharmacy, Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Costco Pharmacy, Safeway, Giant Pharmacy, and independent pharmacies)
From:
[Your Name]
Current U.S. policies tell immune-compromised folks at high risk and other vulnerable people to go to pharmacies to get vaccines and boosters – at the same time as people contagious with active COVID infections are going there to get Paxlovid and COVID tests, and others who may not yet know they are contagious are simply shopping.
ALL WITH NO MASKS!
This policy makes no sense. Drug stores are community shopping centers and provide healthcare.
To make them safer for all of us, please require masks for everybody in the stores. And please come up with plans at the stores to provide people with masks, offer drive-through where available, and curbside service or home delivery when possible.
It is not acceptable to require staff and customers to get exposed at essential service locations when this can be prevented. Pharmacies should be a safe location with infection control prioritized.
WE NEED A DRUG STORE MASK REQUIREMENT!