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Staying ahead in a post-lockdown pharmacy setting

August 2020

Richard Everts

Thursday 30 July 2020, 10:28 PM

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In the post-lockdown world, there’s still plenty to be done in community pharmacy to control respiratory infections to keep staff and other patients well, writes infectious disease specialist Richard Everts

New Zealand is now in an inter-pandemic phase, and long may this last! I hear that many people in our community are “sick of COVID” and would just lik

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