Comprehensive Definition of the Pharmacist's Functions in COVID-19 Management and Role of Hospital and Community Pharmacists
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Abstract
COVID-19 is caused by a new coronavirus identified in late December 2019. First dubbed “2019 novel coronavirus” (2019-nCoV), it was renamed “Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus type 2”. COVID-19 spread fast from Wuhan, Hubei, mainland China, to neighboring countries and throughout the globe. SARS-CoV-2 was in 213 countries on July 15, 2020. Coronavirus killed many and strained society and the economy. Hospitals and pharmacies are overrun with COVID-19. COVID-19 has changed everything. Pharmacy has become patient-centered and service-based in recent decades. Pharmacies have grown from compounding facilities to pharmaceutical centers, clinical pharmacies, and fully integrated “medical-pharmaceutical networks” providing many non-prescribing services. Pharmacy duties, tasks, and responsibilities have increased to suit new societal requirements and talents as history has altered. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that crises and public health situations need completely integrated, inter-sectoral, and inter-professional teamwork. Community and hospital pharmacists were crucial. Preliminary data suggest community pharmacists may become heroes and frontline health workers in the “post-COVID-19 post-pharmaceutical care era” of pharmacy.
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