PULLMAN, Wash., July 6 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
Kimberly McKeirnan didn't set out to battle a pandemic.
She began with a simple question: Why not employ pharmacy technicians to give vaccinations, to help overworked pharmacists and improve patient care?
Other medical assistants give injections, after all. Parents give shots to their diabetic children, and many people give themselves shots. Also, around the time this possibility was germinating in her mind, she learned that Idaho was considering making it legal for pharmacy techs to give vaccines.
She responded by creating a training program in 2016 that has since been used by some 170,000 pharmacy techs, resulting in millions and millions of vacci...