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The shipments, which won’t contain the actual vaccine vials, will test the systems used by state health departments to order vaccine doses.

“My bet is that the vaccine will be readily available, at least, by March,” the “Mad Money” host said.

Shares of GoodRx continued to trade lower after Tuesday’s sell-off.

U.S. officials are seeing “tremendous uptake” of a program that will allow CVS Health and Walgreens to administer Covid vaccines to seniors in facilities.

Dow futures dropped Tuesday after two names in the 30-stock average, Home Depot and Walmart, reported earnings. The Dow closed at a record high Monday.

The announcement also spooked investors in traditional pharmacy giants, such as CVS and Rite Aid.

Amazon has been quietly building out its pharmacy offering for several years after ramping up internal discussions in 2017 and acquiring PillPack in 2018.

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in midday trading.

CVS, Rite Aid and other pharmacy stocks were under pressure on Tuesday morning after Amazon’s newest venture was announced.

The 2019 NBA Finals MVP will also hold two board of directors seats after joining X2 as part of a Series D funding round.

U.S. stocks jumped, nearing a record 30,000 on the Dow, after Moderna said preliminary trial data showed its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective.

Getting rid of Obamacare “now, in the midst of this pandemic and huge unemployment, would be a huge mistake,” former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told CNBC.

More than 10,000 of the new hires will be full-time and part-time pharmacy technicians who can help dispense medications and administer COVID-19 tests.

Target, CVS Health and Publix Super Markets  on Thursday joined the growing list of major retailers that will require customers to wear masks as cases of COVID-19 spike.

Walmart and Sam’s Club became the latest chains to mandate mask use in stores, joining Starbucks, Costco and Apple. Those stores require masks even in states where face coverings in public spaces are not mandatory.

CVS and the United Parcel Service will start using drones next month to deliver prescription medications to residents in a Florida retirement community in an effort to maintain social distancing measures, UPS announced Monday.

Thousands of people will soon be able to drive to a nearby parking lot, swab their noses and find out within minutes if they have the coronavirus. CVS Health and Walgreens each opened one drive-thru testing location last month — but they’re now expanding the number of sites and opening them to the general public. Their first drive-thrus were restricted to first...

CVS Health Chief Executive Larry Merlo said a lack of personal protective equipment has slowed the widespread rollout of its drive-thru tests for the coronavirus and limited the number of tests that sites are able to do.

A Purdue University engineering student said he denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by a CVS employee who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver’s license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. José Guzmán Payano, a junior at Purdue, went...

Walmart, CVS Health and Rite Aid are pulling all containers of Johnson & Johnson’s 22-ounce baby powder after the FDA found sub-trace amounts of asbestos, the companies confirmed Thursday. “CVS Pharmacy is complying with Johnson & Johnson’s voluntary recall of Johnson’s Baby Powder 22 oz. and is removing this product from all stores and from CVS.com,” spokesman Mike DeAngelis said...