Kenneth McCall interviewed by 'Bangor Daily News' for story on flu shots
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice Kenneth “Mac” McCall, BSPharm, Pharm.D., who serves as the president of the Maine Pharmacy Association, was quoted in the October 22, 2012 issue of the Bangor Daily News in a story regarding pharmacist-administered flu shots in Maine.
According to the article, titled “Pharmacies pick up slack in doling out flu shots,” the number of people nationally who received flu shots in the 2012-11 season increased by 14 million from 2006-07, thanks in part to a change in Maine law in 2009 that granted permission to pharmacists to administer the vaccine to adults and children over age nine.
“Most of the increase we’ve seen in the total number of flu shots given has been driven by pharmacies,” McCall notes.
Although Maine was one of the last states to pass such a law, it recently became a leader in the country during the last legislative session by passing LD 1715, which will enable pharmacists to expand the list of vaccines they can give to patients to include all vaccines recommenced for adults by the U.S. CDC.