Richard H. Hughes, IV and Spreeha Choudhury, attorneys in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, were quoted in The New York Times, in “Can You Still Get the Covid Shot?” by Maggie Astor. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
The threat of Covid infections has not gone away, but the vaccines that help protect against them will be harder to come by this season. …
“I’m just really struggling to think of many places where you would be able to just walk into a pharmacy and find a pharmacist that, one, had the authority and, two, was willing to give you that vaccine if it wasn’t on label,” said Richard Hughes IV, a vaccine lawyer who teaches at George Washington University Law School and worked for Moderna. …
But some other experts said they expected pharmacists to require a doctor’s note or examine prescription records.
“If they feel that their license is at any risk, they’re not going to vaccinate,” said Spreeha Choudhury, a lawyer and former pharmacist.
