Walk-Ins Welcome

CVS Health is Now Offering Same-Day COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments Nationwide

CVS Health announced that will be accepting walk-in COVID-19 appointments at CVS Pharmacy locations across the country, including the 205 sites in Maryland.

The company’s COVID-19 vaccine scheduler is updated throughout the day to account for same-day cancellations, as appointments can be scheduled the same day, including appointments as soon as one hour from the time of scheduling, is also available at CVS.com. Once you visit the website, you log in to the COVID-19 vaccination, where you can access the scheduling tool. You will need to provide some basic information as a screener, like your zip code, and it will show you the different stores that are offering vaccination, and it will tell you which vaccine they are offering. It should be noted when scheduling that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is one dose as the others are two doses separately.

As of May 5, CVS Health is now vaccinating in more than 8,300 stores across 49 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and has surpassed 17 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered through its participation the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program and Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. Second dose compliance is more than 90 percent at CVS Health locations.

Every store carries a different vaccine. A single store will only have one version of the vaccine, so one group of stores will carry Moderna, Pfizer, or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. For example, you cannot go into the store and chose from the three as each store is assigned a specific vaccine by a manufacturer.

A statement by the CEO and President of CVS Health, Karen S. Lynch, on the urgency and willingness to provide the vaccine to people nationwide: “We continue to orchestrate an all-out effort to vaccinate the nation against COVID-19.”

“Thanks to the dedication and effort of our colleagues, I am proud to say we helped achieve the President’s accelerated 100-day goal of 200 million vaccines and have administered over 17 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to date,” Lynch said. “Our customers continue to give us high satisfaction scores based on their interactions with colleagues and our customer-centric digital approach for scheduling appointments.”