Pharmacy group opening COVID-19 vaccine appointments to frontline workers, first responders

PITTSBURGH — The Mainline Pharmacy Group is expanding COVID-19 vaccine appointments to frontline workers and first responders, starting Wednesday.

Doses of the vaccine will be given at clinics held by the pharmacy group -- which includes Bushy Run Pharmacy and Blairsville Pharmacy -- in Westmoreland, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and Blair counties.

Newly eligible people include law enforcement, firefighters, grocery store workers, food and agriculture workers, farmworkers, farm operators and farm managers, a news release said.

Proof or verification of employment is not required to receive the vaccine.

“I wish we would get to the point where we could open it up for everyone because our whole motto here is to get vaccines in arms. When the state says we’re ready to go with everybody, we’re ready to go with everybody,” Steven Pope, of the Mainline Pharmacy Group, said.

Anyone, including frontline workers and first responders, who is eligible for the vaccine can make an appointment on the Mainline Pharmacy website (CLICK HERE). For people who don’t have access to the internet, appointments can be made by calling one of the stores.

Since January, the Mainline Pharmacy Group has vaccinated about 60,000 people.

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