CVS has added 40 more pharmacies to its list of California locations offering the COVID-19 vaccine.
New sites in the Bay Area can be found in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Solano counties, the company confirmed to KCBS Radio on Thursday. The just-added pharmacies are offering appointments immediately, with the CVS website showing many still available.
In all, 160 CVS pharmacies are offering the vaccine across the state.
When the pharmacy started offering the COVID-19 vaccine in mid-February, it was administering roughly 82,000 doses of the Moderna two-shot vaccine per week. With an additional 49,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech two-shot vaccine available through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, it’s up to a 131,000 weekly total.
The company also added CVS pharmacies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Arizona to its list with vaccine availability Thursday.
Other pharmacies like Rite Aid and Walgreens are also offering vaccines.
The additional CVS locations come as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to grant emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson's single-shot coronavirus vaccine, bringing another 20 million vaccine doses into the growing market by the end of March.
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