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CVS, Walgreens to offer free flu shots to unemployed
Photo credit: AP | Jack Houley, 10, of Annapolis, Md., receives a shot of a trial vaccine for the swine flu from nurse Peggy Hughes, right, during a visit to Annapolis Pediatrics in Annapolis in late August. Health officials expect a wine-flu vaccine to be available to the public in October. New York City plans to offer the shots free to schoolchildren. (August 2009)
CVS and Walgreens, the nation's two largest drugstore chains, will soon offer millions of dollars of free seasonal flu shots to unemployed and uninsured people.
CVS Caremark Corp. will offer 100,000 free shots valued at about $3 million to job seekers, the Rhode Island-based company said yesterday in a statement. Walgreen Co., based in Illinois, will distribute $1 million in shots to the uninsured...
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