People confuse the availability of the flu shot for a virus vaccine.
A Milwaukee pharmacy has had to remind its customers that they do not have a vaccine for the coronavirus following a spate of requests, according to reports. The Walgreens Pharmacy on 76th and Center was forced to place a sign in the window reading «COVID-19 vaccine not yet available» as more and more people confuse the flu shot with a vaccine needed to protect against the virus which has killed more than 220,000 in the U.S. «A lot of times, [customers] say, ‘Well I was driving by Walgreens and I saw a sign that the vaccine is available,’ and we’re like, ‘Yeah, that was the flu vaccine, it wasn’t really the COVID-19 vaccine,» Dr. Hashim Zaibak, a pharmacist at Hayat Pharmacy, told WISN. «So people, when they are driving, they see one word and they just associate it with COVID-19 and it’s really not the vaccine.
