West Virginia Walgreens Drops Everbridge for Coronavirus Vaccine Scheduling

Will Schedule Their Own Vaccinations

WHEELING -- Walgreens pharmacies throughout West Virginia now will be scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations at their sites themselves. They no longer will use the state's Everbridge scheduling system to set up their appointments.

A spokesperson from the Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed Tuesday evening that the pharmacy chain will handle its own vaccination appointments moving forward.

It had been pulling names from the Everbridge system since West Virginia started taking part in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program in February.

"Walgreens has agreed to participate as part of our joint interagency task force and we will be pushing lists to Walgreens from our Everbridge system in conjunction with each county location where those Walgreens are," James Hoyer, the state's director of the Interagency Task Force for Vaccinations, said at the February announcement. "It's a coordinated, consolidated and synchronized effort to get doses out."

People who got their first shot at a Walgreens will be contacted by the pharmacy to schedule the second appointment.

Representatives from Walgreens' corporate communications department could not immediately be reached for comment.

West Virginia joined the second phase of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program to take advantage of additional doses of vaccine for state residents. What started as an extra 5,800 doses per week quickly jumped to 7,300 doses per week through the program.

Seventy-three Walgreens pharmacies throughout West Virginia are administering vaccine. West Virginia residents can see whether they're eligible for vaccination and schedule through Walgreens if they are by visiting https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/vaccination/covid-19?ban=covid_vaccine_landing_schedule.