@thecountertruth: Pharmacists should recommend vaccines. Pharmacists should provide vaccine education, answer questions, correct misinformation, discuss CDC immunization recommendations, and help patients make informed healthcare decisions. But pharmacists should NOT be held accountable for a patient choosing to decline a vaccine. Vaccine hesitancy, declining immunization rates, increasing vaccine exemptions, and distrust in healthcare are complicated public health issues. Turning immunizations into pharmacy performance metrics does not solve those problems—and it risks damaging the pharmacist-patient relationship. Patient autonomy still matters. Informed consent still matters. A patient should be able to hear an evidence-based vaccine recommendation from their pharmacist and still say “no” without feeling pressured. Measure whether pharmacists are providing appropriate vaccine education and access—not whether patients ultimately say yes. I am strongly pro-vaccine. I am also strongly pro-patient autonomy. Those beliefs can and should coexist.@The Accidental Pharmacist #Pharmacist #VaccineEducation #PatientAutonomy #creatorsearchinsights
Chelsea | PharmD • MBA
Region: US
Monday 10 August 2026 21:15:42 GMT
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Angel Avila :
It’s probably Walgreens 😂
2026-08-11 02:11:03
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𐙚⋅˚linnpooh୨୧ 🍵۰ ۪۫۫ ༉‧ :
Working at Walgreens we get harassed daily by higher ups about pushing for flu shots along with a non-flu shot and I’m tiredddddd.
2026-08-11 00:58:19
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Chickenwang :
Do they understand how this messaging just fuels the conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines? Whoever comes up with these “campaigns” is FAR removed from medicine and patient care.
2026-08-10 23:20:02
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Misplaced Texan Girl :
We were specifically told we are not allowed to take no for an answer. I told my DM I believe in consent and I won't harrass people that tell me no. I'm sure i will need a new job in a few months
2026-08-10 23:33:30
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Lauren Edgar :
It’s Walgreens. But they’re not a healthcare company anymore. They are in private equity so it’s pure profit. Squeezing a few shots in early august when it’s 97 outside makes them look like idiots and desperate
2026-08-11 01:22:42
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Maurice | PharmD :
I can’t wait to talk about this
2026-08-10 21:39:01
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BrookeSS :
It’s absolutely ridiculous, I hate corporate and these metrics
2026-08-10 21:35:11
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My Emotional support cucumber :
As a pharmacy tech It’s ridiculous and very sad to see how pharmacists and techs alike wave their morals and put aside patient care just to go along with corporate. According to the CDC (with the exception of some cases)flu vaccines should be administered September- October for optimal protection. Yet they recommend them every day cause the goal is at least one FLU vaccine per day. ( per corporate orders)
2026-08-11 00:19:30
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thelegaldrugdealerx :
It’s not flu season! We aren’t protecting anyone throughout the entire season if we start now. What the world do they mean by protecting the community?? That’s greed.
2026-08-11 01:05:50
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Kim K :
The cashier at cvs told me in front of my son I was “missing” like 4 vaccines. My son started getting anxious I was going to get sick. I told them I see my primary doctor every 6 month and I’m up to date on all my vaccines. My insurance doesn’t even cover vaccines administered outside a doctors office. They are stressing out my 10 year old for no reason
2026-08-12 15:02:42
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Juju Haihai :
My job has us trying to push the flu vaccine now and then telling them they can come back end of December or beginning of January and get another one and they will be covered the whole year meet the quota or get less hours for techs which leaves us short staffed it sucks
2026-08-12 03:34:12
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Ashley🕊️✨ :
CVS started doing flu vax in JULY. All of the techs including myself are so understaffed and stressed out about daily meetings to meet goals. Asking 100% of patients who come to the store. We are given packets of patient profiles to call and schedule vaccinations. I’ve seen pharmacists advise a patient to get their shot early when they pushed back even though it’s not recommended to get them until fall and they are now pressuring us to push back customers as well. It’s exhausting and unethical.
2026-08-13 20:14:22
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Daraelaine :
I get mine done at the Dr's office and when the pharmacy asks I let them knkw but they always keep asking
2026-08-10 22:38:08
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Pharmacist Bestie :
This kind of stuff makes people even more skeptical about vaccines because why are they being forced to this point?
2026-08-10 23:08:38
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Thenoseknows :
One employee now gets vaccinated daily to get corporate off their back. Maybe when the whole staff is sick during flu season corporate will leave them alone 😂
2026-08-10 23:07:22
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becca :
absolutely medical malpractice to be recommending people to get their flu shot in the end of July beginning of August 😭 good thing corporations just care about the padding in their wallets and not the well being of their patients!
2026-08-10 23:34:06
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Andrea Preston :
But we (pharmacy team) do get in trouble for it. I work for a corporate retail pharmacy and I’ve seen this many times. Pharmacists get called out in meetings and emails. Then pharmacy team gets in trouble. I had a district manager work at our store and he didn’t believe us when we said people say no. And it took him working with us to see people say no and that’s why we don’t get one vaccine that day. It is pushed and pushed on us.
2026-08-11 00:56:43
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Maquinista47 :
It shouldn’t be recommend until October
2026-08-10 22:38:34
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Raye jarf :
I’m a wag tech and the whole thing is just absurd they want us to harass patients to get a flu shot 2 months early
2026-08-11 13:05:04
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Jen C :
It's all about corporate greed. Pharmacies make lots of money for vaccines. Yet these companies pay their pharmacy techs next to nothing to endure all this. We're forced to make cold calls to customers to schedule vaccines. As if we don't have enough to do per day!
2026-08-11 00:47:04
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Paine Sinclaire :
They just need to report the pharmacy manager who is sending those out to the Board of Pharmacy. I would think there would be a disciplinary action for going against CDC recommendations and requiring flu shots over a month ahead of time?
2026-08-11 22:00:56
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DisneyGaymer :
Is the new flu shot even available yet? Just wondering
2026-08-10 22:12:56
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Kendy :
This is Walgreens.
2026-08-11 02:05:27
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CowsWithGuns :
I'm reading the comments here and there's a question that no one is asking. And realistically I don't see anyone being able to find out the answer unless it's through a discovery in a court case. I wonder what the contract says between the pharmacy and question and the supplier of said vaccine?
2026-08-10 23:12:12
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😐 :
Why not just have pharmacists offer it to customers then document if they agreed or not? Less about chastising pharmacists for low administrations and more about ensuring people are aware of and educated on the option. The way they seem to be handling this seems a lot less effective
2026-08-10 21:33:28
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