Staying ahead in a post-lockdown pharmacy setting

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Staying ahead in a post-lockdown pharmacy setting

Coughing COVID social distancing. Edited image. Original from Kyle Mueller on Unsplash
Edited image. Original from Kyle Mueller on Unsplash

In the post-lockdown world, there’s still plenty to be done in community pharmacy to control res­piratory infections to keep staff and other patients well, writes infectious disease specialist Richard Everts

New Zealand is now in an inter-pandemic phase, and long may this last! I hear that many people in our community are “sick of COVID” and would just lik
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