![]() In May, another innovation of the testing model: the first of many sites opened at Neighborhood Market pharmacy drive-thru windows. That same month, Walmart also added mobile testing to this critical mission, launching in Georgia, Alabama and Kansas, expanding into areas without Walmart stores to better serve rural populations. “It made what we were doing real.”īy April, Walmart was opening drive-thru testing sites consistently in parking lots across the country. “It gave me goose bumps,” Heishman recalls. Not long after that unforgettable first day, Heishman watched as an individual completed his test, pumped his fist out the car window and shouted, “God bless the USA!” We are truly trailblazing within our realm of the world.” … I saw legitimate fatigue on almost every face, but even more obvious was legitimate excitement over what we were each realizing we had just accomplished. In the midst of palpable fear, there we were, taking these first nasal swabs and samples, doing drive-up testing for the novel coronavirus. And suddenly there we were as pharmacists doing something that it feels like none of us in our profession have ever done before. and across the world are feeling fear, a fear which many haven’t ever felt before. “The world feels so uncertain for all of us right now. ![]() “After a week of plans, and changes of plans, and being on-call for meetings, and wondering if this could all really get going, it came together,” wrote Heishman, a pharmacy manager at a Sam’s Club near Northlake, chronicling the experience.
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